"The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences."
Anonymous
"The fact is: Jesus wrote not a solitary word that survives. Equally astounding is historical silence: not a single historical account refers to him during his lifetime from any source whatsoever, Roman or Jewish, official or personal."
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
"A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships."
Gore Vidal
"A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser."
Euclid
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
Douglas Adams
"Never lose your sense of common sense."
Anonymous
"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."
Leon Trotsky
"When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest."
Debra Webb
"One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies."
Phil Ochs
"Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad."
Kate McGahan
"Even when you are lazy and don't have the effort to learn something sit somewhere in public and try to observe the stupid people around you, that would be more than enough learning for the day."
Neymat Khan
"I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a lack of food or sleep. It lowers my entire mood. But, I need to be proved wrong sometimes, as it restores humility, and doesn't allow my ego to swell to stupidly big sizes."
Paul Kelly
"Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously 'born' in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality."
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