Other Quotes

I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the Constitution. I think it's just as important as any of the other rights in our constitution.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

We all have our problems and we are working to find a solution to ours and also to help the eurozone. We expect that other countries should do the same, that they be prudent in their statements.

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.