“Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 111 of 313
“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears”
“There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.”
“Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?”
“When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology - it's a science that's always interested me very much, also in relation to the problem of poverty. Or else I'll go back to studying history - at Oxford I took my degree in history. Or else...I don't know, I'm fascinated by the tribal communities. I might busy myself with them.”
“Better to dream than to be.”
“Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]”
“Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope”
“There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even should we be deceived, still the good to ourselves resulting from a kind act is worth more than the trifle by which we purchase it.”
“I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.”
“The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. And with AIDS, a whole generation of gay men died practically all at once, within a couple of years.”
“There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.”
“The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision”
“A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.”
“We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.”
“If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.”
“Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.”
“The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.”
“Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.”
“No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.”