E. W. Howe Quotes
What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.
Quotes to Explore
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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I'm bisexual.
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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Anyone who attacks our LGBT community, anyone who attacks anyone in our state, will be gone after with the full extent of the law.
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I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.
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It took me a while to find myself.
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There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
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Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.
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I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.
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The next time you find yourself racing quickly down the street, know that you're not only running to your next appointment, you are literally running from contact with your truest feelings, deepest needs and most valuable insights.
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I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
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No righteous rules, however rigid, are too stringent for me; I will live above them.
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It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.
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I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and illegible liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
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For ne'erWas flattery lost on poet's ear:A simple race! they waste their toilFor the vain tribute of a smile.
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The fact that you can write verse is in itself a certificate that you can write prose.
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If God calls you, pick up the damn phone!
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The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
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The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.
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What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.
