| 3978 |
For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most diffic |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3977 |
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3976 |
Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3974 |
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading! |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3972 |
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3971 |
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - the |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3968 |
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3967 |
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3966 |
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself th |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3965 |
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3964 |
The only journey is the one within. |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3962 |
We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on c |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3961 |
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its ro |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3960 |
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images impriso |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3959 |
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questio |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3958 |
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 3957 |
All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun. |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 3956 |
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 3955 |
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a |
Al Capone |
| 3954 |
A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for |
Chris Baty |
| 3953 |
No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. |
Tom Schulman |
| 3952 |
When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you thi |
Tom Schulman |
| 3951 |
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his |
Democritus |
| 3950 |
The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough. |
Barbara Hambly |
| 3949 |
I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you. |
Elizabeth Lowell |
| 3948 |
I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. |
David Lee Roth |
| 3946 |
The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale. |
Grace Kelly |
| 3945 |
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear |
Solon |
| 3944 |
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? |
Voltaire |
| 3943 |
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two |
Voltaire |
| 3942 |
There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who |
Frank Serafini |
| 3941 |
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all |
Meryl Streep |
| 3940 |
You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charg |
Catherine Coulter |
| 3938 |
If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return f |
Karen Traviss |
| 3937 |
Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the |
Karen Traviss |
| 3936 |
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing t |
Voltaire |
| 3935 |
Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for |
Voltaire |
| 3934 |
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-man |
Voltaire |
| 3933 |
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. |
Voltaire |
| 3932 |
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. |
Voltaire |
| 3931 |
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path alw |
Voltaire |
| 3930 |
You're a bitter man," said Candide.
That's because I've lived," said Martin. |
Voltaire |
| 3929 |
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul. |
Voltaire |
| 3928 |
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, |
Voltaire |
| 3927 |
Let us cultivate our garden. |
Voltaire |
| 3926 |
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on... |
Voltaire |
| 3925 |
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion |
Voltaire |
| 3924 |
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplat |
Voltaire |
| 3923 |
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," re |
Voltaire |
| 3922 |
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s thro |
Voltaire |
| 3921 |
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disea |
Voltaire |
| 3920 |
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. |
Voltaire |
| 3919 |
Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as the |
Voltaire |
| 3918 |
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. |
Voltaire |
| 3917 |
I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste. |
Voltaire |
| 3916 |
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. |
Voltaire |
| 3915 |
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little glo |
Voltaire |
| 3914 |
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is |
Voltaire |
| 3913 |
L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'être. |
Voltaire |
| 3912 |
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."
(<em>Not |
Voltaire |
| 3911 |
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us |
Voltaire |
| 3910 |
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thou |
Voltaire |
| 3909 |
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rat |
Voltaire |
| 3908 |
Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. |
Sarah Sundin |
| 3907 |
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise t |
Voltaire |
| 3906 |
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they d |
Voltaire |
| 3905 |
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual |
Voltaire |
| 3904 |
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong t |
Voltaire |
| 3903 |
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest o |
Voltaire |
| 3902 |
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor. |
Voltaire |
| 3901 |
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce. |
Voltaire |
| 3900 |
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. |
Voltaire |
| 3899 |
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love wit |
Voltaire |
| 3898 |
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enem |
Voltaire |
| 3897 |
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill i |
Voltaire |
| 3896 |
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. |
Voltaire |
| 3895 |
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. |
Voltaire |
| 3894 |
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. |
Voltaire |
| 3893 |
Il est bien malaisé ... d'ôter à des insensés des cha |
Voltaire |
| 3892 |
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. |
Voltaire |
| 3891 |
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. |
Voltaire |
| 3890 |
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. |
Voltaire |
| 3889 |
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. |
Voltaire |
| 3888 |
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it. |
Voltaire |
| 3887 |
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to f |
Voltaire |
| 3886 |
Prejudices are what fools use for reason. |
Voltaire |
| 3885 |
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part. |
Voltaire |
| 3884 |
Man is free at the instant he wants to be. |
Voltaire |
| 3882 |
<em>Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire.</em>
(The secret of being a bor |
Voltaire |
| 3881 |
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh. |
Voltaire |
| 3880 |
A witty saying proves nothing. |
Voltaire |
| 3879 |
Ice-cream is exquisite.
What a pity it isn't illegal. |
Voltaire |
| 3878 |
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are |
Voltaire |
| 3877 |
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. |
Voltaire |
| 3876 |
Dare to think for yourself. |
Voltaire |
| 3875 |
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way. |
Voltaire |
| 3873 |
Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often p |
Kim Young-ha |
| 3872 |
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared |
Sydney J. Harris |
| 3871 |
People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public. |
Bryan White |
| 3870 |
Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass. |
Jonathan Kellerman |