2,092 quotes found
“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
“#1487: Hug a cow.”
“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.”
“There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.”
“If you want more joy in your daily life, smile at the people you meet in the street, the woman sitting beside you on the bus or standing next to you in the queue at the airport, the waiter who brin...”
“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
“All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.”
“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.”
“I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never again hurt any...”
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”
“The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.”
“Oh my dear! Peace is something we all create together! No one person gets to take credit for it! That's the whole point! Each person matters equally. Every heart radiates a center of joy. In this w...”
“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as Ive said before, bugs in amber.”
“Jesus of Nazareth told us to say these twelve words when we prayed: 'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.' ... And for those words alone, he deserves to be called ...”
“Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics”
“Steel screams when it's forged, it gasps when it's quenched. It creaks when it goes under load. I think even steel is scared, son.”
“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their i...”
“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all...”
“The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.”
“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”
