We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?
The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
Rick Perry is now saying he thinks that Barack Obama's birth certificate is fake. I think Perry may have faked his driver's license.
Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful.
Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.
Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.
We must, from here on in, all go down the same path. . . There may not be another chance.
You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.
You may be witty, but not satirical.
There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.
Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.
We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we can know quite well if we are loving our neighbor. And be certain that, the farther advanced you find you are in this, the greater the love you will have for God.
Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.
I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience
Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph
