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Bertolt Brecht
It is easier to rob
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
491
Holly Lisle
Actions have consequences...first rule of
Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
40
Bertolt Brecht
Go make yourself a plan
Go make yourself a plan / And be a shining light. / Then make yourself a second plan, / For neither will come right.
455
Jack Handey
If you ever reach total
If you ever reach total enlightenment while you're drinking a beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
68
Jean Rostand
It is sometimes well for
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
57
Dr. Robert Schuller
Build a dream and the
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
61
Virginia
I have lost friends, some
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
25
Jean Rostand
To say of men that
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
43
Holly Lisle
I would rather be right
I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.
19
Jean Rostand
I should have no use
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
43
Jack Handey
I can picture in my
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
75
Jean Rostand
God, that checkroom of our
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
49
Jean Rostand
It takes a very deep-rooted
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
56
Dr. Robert Schuller
You can often measure a
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
58
Jean Rostand
The ideal, without doubt, varies,
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
41
Virginia
The first duty of a
The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
20
Jean Rostand
Beauty in art is often
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
49
Holly Lisle
You must learn to face
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.
18
Jack Handey
Marta likes to talk about
Marta likes to talk about sensuality, but I don't think she would know sensuality if it bit her on the ass.
33
Jean Rostand
We are not na?ve enough
We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
47
Dr. Robert Schuller
Yes, you can be a
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary impossible.
73
Jean Rostand
The least one can say
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
56
Virginia
If we didn't live venturously,
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.
22
Jean Rostand
The only things one can
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
61