Henry Rollins Quotes
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
Kevin Spacey -
In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
Hans Kung -
things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.
Vernon Lee -
How does [Mitt Romney] explain all of those terrible things he said, you know, that - to the Kellyanne [Conwey] point.
Andrea Mitchell -
Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances
Xenophanes -
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
Andrew Vachss
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A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
Louis Nizer -
Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
Xenocrates -
Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher -
...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.
Ian Caldwell -
That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.
Zeno of Citium -
Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
Sara Willis
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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi -
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
Saint Augustine -
The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
Anne Carson -
The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.
Jason Mraz -
It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.
E. Haldeman-Julius
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Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.
Madeleine de Souvre -
What man is a man who does not make the world better.
Balian of Ibelin -
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.
William Cowper -
I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.
Barack Obama -
Some music really does suck!
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