Alexander Pope Quotes
What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things!
Quotes to Explore
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
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I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
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Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.
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I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
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We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.
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What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things!
