It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
- Tupac Shakur
@vonny,
The monopoly of life; pick your path.
When people cut you down or talk behind your back, remember, they took time out of their pathetic lives to think about you.
- Ritu Ghatourey
“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
— Derek Walcott
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
- Earl of Chesterfield
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski
“What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.”
― Gore Vidal
@edgarblythe,
Yikes, edgar, Gore is the one who said that FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor and he let it happen to get us out of the depression.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I haven't read that particular book and have not researched his sources. I still like his quote.
“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
― Albert Camus
"There is no such thing as a sound Argument from Authority, but authorities can be persuasive, sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly....I myself do not understand all the science that is relevant to the theories I discuss, but, then, neither do the scientists (with perhaps a few polymath exceptions)."
--Daniel C. Dennet, in the preface to Darwin's Dangerous Idea.
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
― Steven Wright
La foi est plus belle que Dieu (faith is more beautiful than God)
--Claude Nougaro
@Olivier5,
Trust is the ultimate beauty.
