"A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs."
George Jean Nathan
"In any situation, listen and follow the first instinct, the sacred inner voice."
Anonymous
"Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions and somehow still be convinced of their own integrity."
Emily Maguire
"If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and say 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'."
Nikita Khrushchev
"Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly."
Alice McCall
"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism."
Henry A. Wallace
"In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas."
Dan Hill
"In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust."
Abhijit Naskar
"Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job."
Ernest Hemingway
"You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story."
Jude Morgan
"All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers."
Thomas Swick
"I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival."
Ingrid Betancourt
"In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end."
Dada Bhagwan
"Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don't know something I don't really in fact know it?"
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