“Authority is never without hate. ”
—Euripides.
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“Authority is never without hate. ”
—Euripides.
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don’t so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head.
Joe Henderson, running coach and author
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Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don’t so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head.
Joe Henderson, running coach and author
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret – that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882).
Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. –Ambrose Bierce, author and editor (1842-1914)
“To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.”
—Bernard Iddings Bell
Shane Warne. At the WACA gound on 15/10/2006 Photo taken by me – user:Moondyne (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can. ”
—Shane Warne
“If some things don’t make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. ”
—Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.”
Lara Flynn Boyle at the 42nd Emmy Awards – Governor’s Ball in September 1990 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don’t get it. ”
—Lara Flynn
“Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
—George Eliot, Middle March
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. –Ray Bradbury, writer (1920-2012).
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
—Thomas Paine.
Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‘Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.’
—Colin Powell.
“I’ve never know any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage. ”
—Arthur Schopenhauer.
English: Thornton Wilder pictured in his Yale College graduation photo, 1920. Image courtesy of the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/brbldl/oneITEM.asp?pid=2037316&iid=1131841&srchtype= (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. –Thornton Wilder, writer (1897-1975).
Salvador (BA) – O Cantor Stevie Wonder fala na abertura da 2ª Conferência de Intelectuais da África e da Diáspora em Salvador. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person. ”
—Stevie Wonder.
“What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. ”
—Leo Buscaglia
Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born September 3, 1940) is a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The church says: The body is a sin. Science says: The body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta. –Eduardo Galeano, journalist and novelist (b. 1940)
Voltaire fought intolerance and fanaticism, and was a prominent and very prolific philosopher of the Enlightenment. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
—Voltaire.
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
—William James.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. –George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
Oscar Wilde, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated, leaning forward, left elbow resting on knee, hand to chin, holding walking stick in right hand, wearing coat. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
—Oscar Wilde.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
—Benjamin Disraeli.
Dr. Isaac Asimov, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, 1965 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
“More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. ”
“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.”
—Petrarch.
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