It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Eric Hoffer
It is love alone that gives worth to all things
Saint Teresa of Avila
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in everybody.
Gertrude Stein
My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.
Jim Carrey
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
Gertrude Stein
If formless meditation is difficult then think of my form just as you see it here. With such meditation the difference between subject and object is lost and the mind dissolves in unity.
Sai Baba
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art, men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. Forster
