P1221 Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. — Aristotle.

I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres. — Felix Dennis

The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims. — Slavoj Zizek

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. — Harvey Broome

Flowers are the free throw of love. You're looking for the clutch three-pointer from downtown. — Daniel Holloway

Shooting in New York can be a problem. I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene. — Richard Gere

Take one day at a time you never know what it will bring. — Debra Woodard

There is here a striving,avid and worldly civilisation, of course; these huge and eager markets, to this incessant buying and selling, that make that self evident; but I had no conception of the ubiquitous sense of the holy, no notion of how another world can permeate the secular. Filth, stench, disease,"gross superstition" as our people say, extreme poverty, promiscuous universal defecation, do not affect it: nor do they affect my sense of humanity with which I am surrounded. What an agreeable city it is, where a man may walk around naked in the heat if it so please him — Patrick O'Brian

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton. — Charles Caleb Colton

It occurred to him that he didn't care much for these hedge animals. It had always seemed slightly perverted to him to clip and torture a plain old hedge into something that it wasn't. Along one of the highways in Vermont there had been a hedge billboard on a high slope overlooking the road, advertising some kind of ice cream. Making nature peddle ice cream, that was just wrong. It was grotesque. — Stephen King

If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it. — Niels Bohr

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? — Jane Austen

It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in. — Emma Forrest