Stephen Fry Quotes

One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.

Stephen Fry

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• When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Live
  • War
  • Together

• And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Life
  • Political
  • Creation

• In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Power
  • End

• Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Action
  • Luck
  • Election

• I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Work
  • College
  • Movies

• For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • May
  • Sun
  • inspirational

• The independent companies tend to be successful in areas that the majors stay away from - then they get nabbed.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Independent
  • Successful
  • Nabbed

• Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • World
  • Devil

• And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Society

• Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Team
  • Question
  • Travel

• To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a cold, perverse wisdom. If you have compassion alone and lack wisdom, you cannot give happiness to others. You are even likely to lead them in the wrong direction, and you won't be able to achieve your own happiness.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Alone

• Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Quality
  • President

• Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Life
  • Death
  • Society

• I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • See
  • Wrong
  • Laws

• When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Life
  • Time
  • Black

• Any more would have been less.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • More
  • Less

• When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Live
  • Family
  • Hope

• Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

  

  Joseph Cook
  • Secret
  • Solitude
  • Conscience

• I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Secret
  • Resentment
  • Dental