Middle-class women who entertain the hope or fancy of being something in the world, lose Nature's happiness and miss Society's. They are the most unfortunate creatures I have known.
Nicolas Chamfort
The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
Alan Alda
Having money is a way of being free of money.
Albert Camus
Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
Edward Snowden
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
Heywood Broun
Love's not an emotion. It's a state of being, an ability.
Vanna Bonta
Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
Catherine lise Blanchett
The lowest form of popular culturelack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most peoples liveshas overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley
In an era when solar power was first being used, the course of history could have taken a much more ecological turn, had people realized the implications of global warming.
Paul F. Ploutz
Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.
Jacob M. Appel