Le Diary Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I am not interested in sending people to heaven. I am interested in making people in such a way that, even if they go to hell, nobody can make them suffer. That's freedom, isn't it? "I want to go to heaven, I want to go to heaven," is a huge bondage. Suppose you land in the wrong place. Suppose someone hijacked your airplane on the way to heaven. He didn't crash it; he just landed it in the wrong place. You're finished, aren't you? You're always living with something that can be taken away from you by somebody or something. True liberation is when nobody can take away anything from you. — Jaggi Vasudev

As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated. — A. N. Wilson

I want to be a free agent. I think everybody in the NBA dreams to be a free agent at least one time in their career. It's like you have an evaluation period. It's like if I'm in the gym and I have all the coaches, all the owners, all the GMs come into the gym and just evaluate everything I do. So yes, I want that experience. — Carmelo Anthony

What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If people are offering help, it's because they want to and you have to let them do it. It just makes life so much easier. You just have to put your pride aside. — Jenna Morasca

It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. — John Steinbeck

In the cold morning the rested street stands up
To greet the clerk who saunters down the world. — Allen Tate

I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the country? You mean the thing on the map, lines, everything inside the lines is good and nothing outside them matters? How can an adult love such a childish idea? — Ursula K. Le Guin

I lied. I lied. I lied. I lied deliberately, knowingly, well. She lied. She is a liar. She is an intellectual too! She is a lie. And a coward, afraid. — Ursula K. Le Guin