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- The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
- We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history…
- What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that…
- We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
- Some of us are lucky enough to fall in love once or twice but the luckiest of us are those who find that someone they…
- Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit…
- All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
- If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real'…
- Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
- Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
- What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires…
- As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of…
- I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil
- Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us…
- Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see…
- We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same…
- Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all…
- To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.
- The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.
- That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But…
- If we can forgive what’s been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we’ve done to others . . . If…
- Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably…
- I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.
- The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have pornography.
- No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong