Intamplari Quotes & Sayings

Both the American and the European approaches to foreign policy were the products of their own unique circumstances. Americans inhabited a nearly empty continent shielded from predatory powers by two vast oceans and with weak countries as neighbors. Since America confronted no power in need of being balanced, it could hardly have occupied itself with the challenges of equilibrium even if its leaders had been seized by the bizarre notion of replicating European conditions amidst a people who had turned their backs on Europe. — Henry Kissinger

The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives. — Charles A. Murray

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter. — C.S. Lewis

The soul is the body's vanity and pleasure as long as the body's in good health, but it's also the urge to escape from the body as soon as the body is sick or things go badly. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Hiding the truth will only cripple your emotional development. — Jessica Park

I would never and did not ever characterize myself as a hippie. — Richard Hayne

If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better. — Will Smith

Youth is beautiful. — Indira Varma

The fleeting systems lapse like foam,'" he mumbled what was evidently a quotation. "That's it - foam, and fleeting. All man's toil upon the planet was just so much foam. He domesticated the serviceable animals, destroyed the hostile ones, and cleared the land of its wild vegetation. And then he passed, and the flood of primordial life rolled back again, sweeping his handiwork away - the weeds and the forest inundated his fields, the beasts of prey swept over his flocks, and now there are wolves on the Cliff House beach." He was appalled by the thought. "Where four million people disported themselves, the wild wolves roam to-day, and the savage progeny of our loins, with prehistoric weapons, defend themselves against the fanged despoilers. Think of it! And all because of the Scarlet Death - — Jack London

Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals. — Adam D'Angelo

You got the good heart. Underneath all the other stuff. Good heart is eighty-five percent of everything in life.' ...
'What is the other fifteen percent?' Nat said. 'Just out of curiosity?'
'Politeness,' Mr. Jones said without hesitation. 'And keeping a level head. — Michael Chabon

When people come and see my show, I try to infuse into them that they can walk away feeling like their lives are a victory. — Ben Vereen