Other Quotes

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.