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| Robert Benchley |
“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t.” — Robert Benchley
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“It was a genuine battle picture, and I was aware of its angry beauty.” — Siegfried Sasoon
“And the blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.” —Sylvia Path
“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.” — Stephen Fry
“Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.” — Nietzsche
“Often the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of.” — From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
“Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.” — Ecclesiastes 1:17
“The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.” — Sojourner Truth
“Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible -- time-freed existential youth forever. it commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth.” — From The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.” — Alan Watts
“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.” ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.” ―J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.” — Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” ― Anaïs Nin
“I would like to be one of those people who treat their local team like their local restaurant, and thus withdraw their patronage if they are being served up noxious rubbish. But unfortunately (and this is one reason why football has got into so many messes without having to clear any of them up) there are many fans like me. For us, the consumption is all; the quality of the product is immaterial.” — Nick Hornby Fever Pitch
“A Troll is someone who wants you to feel, for a few seconds, as miserable as they do their entire existence.” — Ricky Gervais
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” — Ingmar Bergman
“And the blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.” — Sylvia Plath
"The only one way we were going to get serious about a revolution was when we had something in the soil. We have it — the People’s Park — and its avenging angels are everywhere.” — Eldridge Cleaver
“There were complications, there were questions; but they were so much more together than they were anything else.” — Henry James from The Wings of a Dove
“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” — Thornton Wilder
I am one who believes in the power of the people. I am inspired when I see people hit the streets, who challenge their elected officials, and are willing to stand up and fight. I encourage it. — Maxine Waters
“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.” — Robert Kennedy
“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.” — Groucho Marx
“There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.” —Mario Savio
"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” — Angela Davis
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” — George Carlin
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
