“People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that’s not true. You’re always better off living.”
~~ Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961]
“Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever."
~~ Nigerian poet Chinua Achebe [1930-2013]
“There are moments when a man’s imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.”
~~ Edith Wharton [1862-1937]
“If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years left to live.”
~~ wrongly attributed to Albert Einstein [1879-1955] {appeared in the 1990s}
"He who fears [that] he shall suffer already suffers what he fears."
~~ Montaigne [1533-92]
"The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
~~ Sir Winston Churchill [1874-1965]
"Some things are just too coincidental to be a coincidence."
~~ Yogi Berra
"Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention."
~~ Amy Tan
"What experience & history teach us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
~~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel [1770-1831]
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."
~~ Baruch Spinoza [1632-77]
"The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure [that] anyone has, is his personal dignity."
~~ baseball great Jackie Robinson [1919-72]
"Until conservatives admit [that] their deepest beliefs regarding taxes and deregulation were, at minimum, severely challenged by the failures of the [George W.] Bush presidency, they are going to have a hard time convincing anyone that they know how to run a country."
~~ freelance columnist Bill Scher
"Man will become better when we have shown him to himself as he is."
~~ Anton Checkov [1860-1904]
“To paraphrase the Christian Bible (Matthew 16): For what is a man profited if he shall make beaucoup bucks while transforming the planet into a cesspool.”
~~ G.E. Nordell
“Socializing with alcohol is fun and we should not pretend otherwise.”
~~ blogger Suzy Dean
"Profit without purpose is a recipe for disaster."
~~ Elizabeth Murdoch {Freud}
"It's the Twentieth Century . . . no more miracles."
~~ Clifford Odets [1906-63], in stageplay "Golden Boy" 1937
"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."
~~ Roger Miller [1936-92]
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
~~ Seneca the Younger [4? B.C.E. - 65 A.D.]
"It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one."
~~ Seneca the Younger [4? B.C.E. - 65 A.D.]
"Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together."
~~ Marilyn Monroe [1926-62]
"The best things in life aren't 'things' at all."
~~ Jim Owen
"All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time."
~~ Edward Albee
"You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at."
~~ Tina Fey
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
~~ Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]
“If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.”
~~ Hollywood mogul Darryl F. Zanuck [1902-79]
“I always find that when I do something I like, from the heart, then it works.”
~~ Harvey Weinstein
"In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full time should have to live in poverty."
~~ President Barack Obama, State of the Union Address 2013
“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are mova+ble, and those that move.”
~~ Benjamin Franklin [1706-90]
"No one wants advice – only corroboration."
~~ John Steinbeck [1902-68]
"Sometimes integrity is the subtlest and most effective strategy of all."
~~ Supreme Court Justice John Marshall [1755-1835]
"The earth has music for those who listen."
~~ George Santayana [1863-1952]
"Oratory [is] the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain."
~~ composer H.I. Phillips
"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats."
~~ Iris Murdoch [1919-99]
"There will come a time when you believe [that] everything is finished. That will be the beginning." ~~ Louis L'Amour [1908-88]
"You can't lead from the crowd."
~~ Margaret Thatcher [1925-2013]
"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."
~~ John Lennon [1940-80]
"It was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all."
~~ Cormac McCarthy
"Silence is argument carried on by other means."
~~ Ernesto 'Che' Guevara [1928-67]
"The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off."
~~ coach Abe Lemons [1922-2002]
"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie."
~~ choreographer Agnes de Mille [1905-93]
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
~~ Charlton Heston [1923-2008]
"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written."
~~ Henry Miller [1891-1980]
"The only lies for which we are truly punished are those [that] we tell ourselves."
~~ V.S. Naipaul
"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor."
~~ George Santayana [1863-1952]
"We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story."
~~ Mary McCarthy [1912-89]
"Sophistication is upscale conformity."
~~ poet James Richardson
"What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you."
~~ Nora Ephron [1941-2012]
"Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow."
~~ Carol Anshaw
"Civilizations die from suicide, not murder."
~~ historian Arnold J. Toynbee [1889-1975]
"The two most important days in your life are the day [that] you are born and the day [that] you find out why."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82]
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
~~ journalist Walter Bagehot [1826-77]
"Friendship is born at the moment [that] one person says to another: What? You too? I thought I was the only one."
~~ C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]
"Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches."
~~ Sigmund Freud [1856-1939]
"Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop."
~~ journalist Alfred Polgar [1873-1955]
"It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves."
~~ Zelda Fitzgerald [1900-48]
"Obstacles are those frightful things [that] you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
~~ Henry Ford [1863-1947]
"The media's job is to interest the public in the public interest."
~~ John Dewey [1859-1952]
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
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