Happiness does not depend on the size or content of a goal, but on the strength of the desire to have it.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top. ” Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. “Like if you take one wrong step,” she said, “you’re going to fall.
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.
One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.
There is also an age-old excuse: 'The devil made me do it. ' Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.
There's no direction I can go in. If I met someone else, what meaning would there be left? If the pain goes, does that mean I never loved her? How can I get over it? I can't, I mustn't. But what else am I going to do?
The horse does not eat cucumber salad
Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.
Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.
Carbon dioxide does not cause or contribute to smog, and the Kyoto treaty would do nothing to reduce or prevent smog.
It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally.
I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.
Donald Trump does what everybody who voted for him wishes would happen every time the left pipes up.
