Martin Ep Seligman Quotes & Sayings

Let's revise the old adage for our times. All that it requires for evil to succeed is that enough lazy, stupid bastards believe everything they're told. — Karen Traviss

Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't. — Antony Garrett Lisi

Sympathy is the child of imagination — Clarence Darrow

These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge. — Claude Levi-Strauss

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. — Franz Grillparzer

Rapunzel. She was one hundred times nobler than he had been, and he loved her. — Melanie Dickerson

they were all just as ignorant as Blackstone was of the chancery law system that had long tempered the inequities of Blackstone's beloved Common Law in both England and the American colonies. Under the old doctrine of the femme covert, which Blackstone almost single-handedly revived, married women legally died; they lost their property rights, their rights to contract and sue, and even the right to custody of their own children and possession of their own bodies. At the same time, the states, one by one, acted to correct an "oversight" in their constitutions; in 1798 New York inserted the word male in the section dealing with suffrage. — Ann Jones

We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize. — Frederick Lenz

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
On death — John Keats

Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and was the family comedy king through the '80s and '90s - 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Home Alone,' etc. - has acquired rights to 'The Cypress House' and is working on the script himself, with intent to direct. — Michael Koryta

The civility we need will not come from watching our tongues. It will come from valuing our differences. — Parker J. Palmer

I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over. — Anne Lamott