For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
#quotes #bono #united-states

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. ~Antoine Rivarol
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
#quotes #geena-davis #humor

I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
#proverbs #scottish-proverbs #carpe-diem #life #death

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
#quotes #gilbert-k-chesterton #fiction #mind #reality

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs #family

Three things see no end. A flower blighted ere it bloomed. A message that was wasted. And a journey that was doomed. ~Mercedes Lackey
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ~William Arthur Ward
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
#quotes #john-green

The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
#quotes #anne-ursu

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more "dates" than me. ~George Hamilton
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I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
#quotes #warren-spahn

I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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We all know of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever fiddle around in any way with electrical equipment. Never. ~Daniel Handler
#quotes #daniel-handler #electric