Quotes 4661 till 4680 of 6005.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
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The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
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The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
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The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.
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The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
Fall On Your Knees (2011) 358 -
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
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The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.
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The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few.
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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