Tom Wolfe Bonfire Of The Vanities Quotes & Sayings

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. — C.S. Lewis

I believe the internet could prove to be as momentous an invention, as profound a platform. This is why we must protect the net from the control of governments and corporations - especially because they are the objects of the disruption technology enables. Only if it remains as open as the printing press for anyone - no, everyone - to use can the net. — Jeff Jarvis

Though you live but a day, but an hour, you should live for the dreams, values, and spirit you have chosen. — Ilchi Lee

You can break my body but never my spirit because that's graced by God. — Veronica Purcell

The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it's not as good as you'd hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down. — Tom Holland

Why can't we all just acknowledge that 'nature' - that is, 'sex' or 'erotic' images, which are really just 'attracters' are everywhere. Of course a flower looks like what it looks like - that's what it is - to a bee. — Sara Genn

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. — Henry Louis Gates

Well I ain't no movie star but I can get behind anything! — Gordon Downie

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective. — Michael Bloomberg

The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness. — Monty Roberts

Here's the poem in part: If things go bad for you - And make you a bit ashamed, Often you will find out that You have yourself to blame ... Swiftly we ran to mischief And then the bad luck came. Why do we fault others? We have ourselves to blame ... Whatever happens to us, Here are the words we say, "Had it not been for so-and-so Things wouldn't have gone that way." And if you are short of friends, I'll tell you what to do - Make an examination, You'll find the fault's in you ... You're the captain of your ship, So agree with the same - If you travel downward, You have yourself to blame.* — Ben Carson

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. — Bertrand Russell

I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally. — Imogen Poots

Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue. — Various

All the modern inconveniences ... — Mark Twain