Intelectually Quotes & Sayings

The relief was tremendous. I did not feel sick anymore. The pain had gone...I had no idea I was so empty. — Daphne Du Maurier

Don't be afraid of who you are. You cannot hope to control your power if you do not understand it and who you are. You must protect yourself at all costs even against those you ... love.' He hesitated lost for a moment and Victoria felt his thoughts flicker briefly into a strange nothingness before moving back to the consciousness she recognized. His words were hard. 'Love is a breeding ground for betrayal. Guard against it. — Amalie Howard

It's hard for people to stampede when they're strutting — Steve Aylett

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism. — Karl Marx

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. — Neil Gaiman

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden. — Aristotle.

It's one thing to impress people, but it's another to love them. — Donald Miller

The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kaoru ... You keep talking about Hikaru. What about you? Aren't you hurting? I understand Hikaru's important to you ... but how do you plan to protect others if you can't look out for yourself? You have to be honest. If you go on like this, Hikaru won't be happy either. So what do you want, Kaoru? Forget about Hikaru and Tama for a moment ... What do *you* want? — Bisco Hatori

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion. — Alan Arkin

Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost — George Horne

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas. — Brian Selznick

Then, if we really want our celestial neighbors to know how far we have progressed intelectually, we should have included pictures of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy — Carl Sagan