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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
Oprah Winfreyborn 1954
As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.
Richard Nixon1913–1994
- Journalism
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus1913–1960The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
The worst thing that could happen to anybody, would be to not be used for anything by anybody.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (pp. 310-311)
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
Colin Powell1937–2021
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Seventh State of the Union (3 December 1907)
In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die, and the choices that we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962Foreword (January 1960)
You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
?UnattributedOften credited to Dorothy Parker
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brownborn 1943The Washington Post (26 January 1977)
I don’t always know what I’m talking about but I know I’m right.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016