“fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity”
“my reaction to porno films is as follows; after the first ten minutes, i want to go home and screw, after the first twenty minutes, i never want to screw again as long as i live” - erica jong“friends...
View Article“for me to live, part of me must die”
“my doctor gave me six months to live, but when i couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more” - walter mathau “have the courage to live, anyone can die” - robert cody “the very least you can do...
View Article“it’s lonely and cold on the top, lonely and cold”
“i’ve never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back”“we cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality”“always be a...
View Article“that which you see is the first thing to disbelieve”
“love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one’s own values in the person of another. one gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one...
View Article“i have no particular talent, i am merely inquisitive”
“hide not your talents, they for use were made. what’s a sundial in the shade?” - benjamin franklin“put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life” - oscar wilde“talent without...
View Article“chances are ’cause i wear a silly grin . . . “
“the moment you come into view”“chances are you think that I’m in love with you”“just because my composure sort of slips”“the moment that your lips meet mine”“chances are you think my heart’s your...
View Article“what a man can be, he must be, this need we call self-actualization”
“i can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can i act. the ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness”“we fear to know the...
View Article“memory is the personal journalism of the soul”
“our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled” - jean paul richter“memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose”...
View Article“discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment”
“right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities” - bertrand russell“seek freedom and become...
View Article“i know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance”
“we have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less”“i have nothing to ask but that you move to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me...
View Article“erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit”
“if we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarim; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition” - charles caleb colton“people who use their erudition to write for a...
View Article“the way i see it, he said, you just can’t win it”
“everybodys in it for their own gain, you can’t please ‘em all”“there’s always somebody calling you down; i do my best ““and i do a good business”“there’s a lot of people asking for my time, they’re...
View Article“sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”
“whoever loves becomes humble. those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism““the great question that has never been answered, and which i have not yet been able to answer,...
View Article“all i can do is to be me, whoever that is”
“i don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. they are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change”“people seldom do what they believe...
View Article“life is what we make it, always has been, always will be”
“when i hear someone sigh ‘life is hard’, i am tempted to ask, ‘compared to what?’” – sydney j. harris“contemplation often makes life miserable. we should act more, think less, and stop watching...
View Article“in order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice”
“‘sex’ is as important as eating and drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other”“to judge from the notions expounded by...
View Article“if we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane”
“ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid” – heinrich henne“the object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks...
View Article“there’s nothing i’m afraid of like scared people”
“there never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate”“it’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets...
View Article“race? what race, looks like an excuse for a party to me”
“men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up”- henry david thoreau “we are driven by five genetic needs: survival,...
View Article“see the u.s.a. in your chevrolet”
“like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak, we forget the view on the way up” - friedrich nietzsche“the tourist may complain of other tourist, but he’d be lost without them” - agnes...
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