Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Author: Susan Sontag

Author: Susan Sontag

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When they explore opportunity cost of black blood I hear ancient corridors survived on the neck of a

Author: Omondi Ochuka
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Women! They think it so romantic to break the rules. But what are we if we don't hold to tradition,

Author: Jessica Khoury
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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Author: Richard Dreyfuss
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Always lust for the best, because life is too short to be an ordinary.

Author: M.H. Rakib
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It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritu

Author: Alice Cooper
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Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.

Author: Charles Barkley
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In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an e

Author: Roger Zelazny
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He who hates vice hates men.

Author: John Morley
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It is well understood in psychology that the subconscious mind has the dominant influence on human d

Author: Kevin Michel
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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Author: Groucho Marx
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Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them.

Author: Judith Henry Wall
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While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you

Author: Rasheed Ogunlaru
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I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer,

Author: Anita Baker
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Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pocket

Author: T.F. Hodge
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I never settled with anything. It was like a pendulum; swinging back and forth but never reached a c

Author: Diyar Harraz
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Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of myste

Author: Jalaluddin Rumi
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I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I re

Author: Adrian Tomine
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She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

Author: Leslye Walton
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When you love yourself, utterly and completely, all of yourself, what you will discover then is that

Author: T. Scott McLeod
Quote #90277

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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I dreamed I was buying new shoes last night," said Ron. "What d'ya think that's gonna mean?""Probabl

Author: J.K. Rowling
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Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

Author: Julian Barnes
Quote #347876

Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent,

Author: Pearl Zhu
Quote #321775

As life speeds up & the political becomes ever more personal democracy continues to foster change as

Author: Dean Cavanagh
Quote #282648

Beware to entertain strangers, thereby you may entertain an angel unawares...New Testament.

Author: Unknown
Quote #163791

Were we [Women] to express our conceptions of God, it wou'd never enter into the head of any one of

Author: Lady Sophia Fermor
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We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospi

Author: Jonathan Kozol
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This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines,

Author: Joe Biden
Quote #500911

Alone I'm nothing.

Author: Robert Plant
Quote #184739

Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with the

Author: Unknown
Quote #228434

Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for.#StokesNotes

Author: Craig Stokes
Quote #372696

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

Author: Aimee Bender
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Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be

Author: Cat Cora
Quote #48357

You can discover your sacred paths by reading.

Author: Unknown
Quote #42318

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

Author: Ulysses S. Grant
Quote #166136

Perhaps our judgement of the purple woman was unfair. No doubt her theories concerning the "approach

Author: Thomas Ligotti
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Author: Camille Paglia
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Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

Author: Sarah Silverman
Quote #148464

Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.

Author: Demosthenes
Quote #267144

If you had one day left to live, what would you do?

Author: Megan Miranda
Quote #179037

Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feelin

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Quote #19143

Fear is a probability by its own cause of actions, if we live by it we lose all the possibilities of

Author: Saleem Durrani
Quote #74864

Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.

Author: Kamand Kojouri
Quote #311228

Stress is unnecessary and unnecessary stress is very unnecessary.

Author: TemitOpe Ibrahim
Quote #487152

Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The na

Author: Lee Kun-hee
Quote #83099

I didn't set fire to the building.""No, but you did pull it into the river.""That put the fire out!

Author: Anthony Horowitz
Quote #41988

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--alw

Author: Charlotte Brontë
Quote #179873

We can no longer believe that after death, if we have sinned, we shall enter hell. Hell has been act

Author: Brian W. Aldiss
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But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it re

Author: Michael Hutchence
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All love is socioeconomic. It’s the gradients in status that make arousal possible.

Author: Gary Shteyngart
Quote #41657

Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

Author: Charles Bukowski
Quote #480797

Faith is never identical with piety.

Author: Karl Barth
Quote #246565

What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.

Author: Julie Wright
Quote #336092

You couldn't find your dick in the dark, you scheming, sleaze-mongering scumwad.

Author: Nenia Campbell
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This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

Author: Joseph Conrad
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Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or

Author: Michael Azerrad
Quote #45432

I have church on Sunday.”“Of course you do.”“You’re welcome to come along.”“Thanks, but I’m allergic

Author: Alexandra Adornetto
Quote #117789

To don't forget and marriage, the happiness is the from 20 up to 30% out of the 100% the other perce

Author: Deyth Banger
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Every religion contains portions of the law. In fact, some unbelievers, by their knowledge of the la

Author: C.F.W. Walther
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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Dare to try, knowing that you will make mistakes. You will fall short again and again, because there

Author: Tessa Afshar
Quote #481555

I was asked to design the tuxedo for Mr. Peanut. They're rebranding him. That was probably the most

Author: Thom Browne
Quote #494400

I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.

Author: Manny Pacquiao
Quote #229096

Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and yo

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to tha

Author: Lindsey Stirling
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If any young man reads this Book aright, he becomes large-hearted. He cannot hold his soul within th

Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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How you approach birth is intimately connected with how you approach life

Author: William Sears
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Success makes me happy, but it doesn’t give me peace. Because I do believe that success is not enoug

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
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All words are written in the same ink,'flower' and 'power,' say, are much the same,and though I migh

Author: Philippe Jaccottet
Quote #82183

For the anarch, things are not so simple, especially when he has a background in history. If he rema

Author: Ernst Jünger
Quote #419127

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

Author: William Shakespeare
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In his madness he became a terrifying actor!

Author: Luigi Pirandello
Quote #287058

Planning helps you to avoid potholes in the journey of life

Author: Topsy Gift
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Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history o

Author: Ethan Allen
Quote #320484

The key is to keep charisma and charm positive and underpinned with sincere and good intentions.

Author: Susan C. Young
Quote #77461

It’s the unknown that draws people.

Author: E.A. Bucchianeri
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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make ev

Author: C.S. Lewis
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You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thou

Author: Taylor Swift
Quote #327428

Truth: last week I online shopped too much. Then I ate 2 pounds of jelly beans to feel better about

Author: Anna White
Quote #312921

Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.

Author: Tom Greer
Quote #386953

I hate him, too," she shivered. "I hate his damned suffering.

Author: Earnest Hemingway
Quote #273679

Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memorie

Author: Kristin Hannah
Quote #204779

The mass of your visions depends on the size of your dreams and distance they can cover within a giv

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #81546

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from

Author: Albert Einstein
Quote #438400

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experien

Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we

Author: Terry Teachout
Quote #258177

Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righ

Author: Philip Yancey
Quote #33991

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth

Author: Albert Camus
Quote #302920

The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not pol

Author: Unknown
Quote #79814

With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.

Author: Anthony Liccione
Quote #41880

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go befo

Author: Rose Tremain
Quote #82574

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none lef

Author: Criss Jami
Quote #365481

Your highest potential is in your highest love.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
Quote #278073

If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.

Author: Michael Grant
Quote #439261

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own

Author: Abraham Maslow
Quote #408949

I could prove God statistically.

Author: George Gallup
Quote #39124

If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our mindsleft behindin

Author: Margarita Engle
Quote #94815

Awake my great soul.Awake my great spirit.Awake my great strength.

Author: Unknown