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The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination. (Norman Mailer)
It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do and which should he done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious. View quote
William Morris
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery. View quote
Karen Blixen
The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss. View quote
Andrei Gromyko
I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful. View quote
Kenny Dalglish
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. View quote
Paul Valéry
Neutrality has increasingly become obsolete and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. View quote
John Foster Dulles
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The road to success is always under construction. View quote
Lily Tomlin
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. (George Washington)
I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut; I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend: "Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut! I got the documentation right here...oh, wait it's at home...in the file...under 'D', for doughnut." View quote
Mitch Hedberg
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. View quote
Orson Welles
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. View quote
Azar Nafisi
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. View quote
Ben Hecht
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics. View quote
Mary McCarthy
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear the strength so strong mere force is feebleness the truth more first than sun, more last than star. View quote
E. E. Cummings
Tread lightly, she is near; Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear; The daisies grow. (Oscar Wilde)
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God. View quote
Thomas Browne
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. View quote
Irwin Shaw