Super Powerful Motivational Quotes & Sayings

A lot of stuff, I've noticed, gets manipulated by writers when it's shown on television - even so-called reality television - and makes us think we're supposed to think and act and look certain ways, when the true reality is totally the opposite. Often there's no "right way" to look or think or act, but because we've been so conditioned by the media to think so, we actually mistrust our own better judgment. — Meg Cabot

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James Baldwin

There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of bad; not changing things, but generally considered good and bad throughout the ages and throughout the species. Of the good, we think always of wisdom, tolerance, kindliness, generosity, humility; and the qualities of cruelty, greed, self-interest, graspingness, and rapacity are universally considered undesirable. And yet in our structure of society, the so-called and considered good qualities are invariable concomitants of failure, while the bad ones are the cornerstones of success ... Perhaps no other animal is so torn between alternatives. Man might be described fairly adequately, if simply, as a two-legged paradox. — John Steinbeck

the truth was that I had become a secret agent because I could not bear for another minute the pointlessness of life in the real world. — Charles McCarry

Only two things in man's consciousness defy discussion: faith and one's marriage. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else. — Chiang Kai-shek

What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places. — Marianne Wiggins

I am the guy, next door who eats a lot and doesn't get fat. — Jordano Quaglia