Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our lifetime.
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.
Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.
Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.
When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?
Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.
The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.
We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.
Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.
The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.
The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism.
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.
My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.