Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 2372.
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The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
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The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
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The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.
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The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.
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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
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The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I'm better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.
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There are always some surprises in the draw when people are playing pretty well.
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There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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