Who Say TV IS All CRAP??
Finally, there is a normal cop serial on TV. Criminal Minds use logic and and reasoning to solve crimes. It seems that all the crime scenes are deprived of fingerprints and evidence. Those psychopaths must have been a CSI experts. At least, it doesn't depicts a lot of sex scenes of the police. Just look at the CSI: New York. Danny and Lindsay, Mac and Peyton, Stella and Frankie , Don and Jessica. Such is the influence of premarital sex. Also,the profile reasoning is good and much easier to understand than NUMB3RS.
Every episodes have some of these best quotes. Quite educational.
Joseph Conrad said, "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
Emerson said, "All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle."
Faulkner once said, "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Nietzsche once said, "When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you."
Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world."
Samuel Johnson wrote, "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
French poet Jacques Rigaut said, "Don't forget that I cannot see myself. My role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror."
Rose Kennedy once said, "Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them."
Euripides said, "When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
Euripides said, "When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness."
Nietzsche wrote, "The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Hemingway wrote, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else.”
Carl Jung said, "The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
Robert Oxton Bolt once wrote, "A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind."
Albert Einstein asked, "The question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or the others crazy?"
Sir Peter Ustinov said, "Unfortunately, a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."
Playwright Eugene Ionesco said, "Ideology separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
Harriet Beecher Stowe once said "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
The poet, W. H. Auden wrote, 'Evil is unspectacular, and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our table.'"
"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Roman philosopher Lucretius said, "What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."
Confucius warned us, "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. (Genesis 9:6)
Albert Pine said, "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."
Norman Maclean wrote, "It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."
Nietzsche wrote, "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."
Gandhi said, "Better to be violent if there's violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."
Gandhi also said, "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent."
W. H. Auden said, "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness."
Diane Arbus once said, "A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."
Bernard Shaw once said, "An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country."
Anthony Brandt wrote, "Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."
Mexican proverb, “The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.”
The author François de la Rochefoucauld wrote, "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
The French philosopher Voltaire wrote, "There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."
Albert Einstein said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
George Orwell said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
Writer Elbert Hubbard said, "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." French writer François de la Rochefoucauld.
"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." Rose Kennedy.
Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer said "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
Mark Twain wrote "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
Philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth," Oscar Wilde
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone," Milan Kundera
Helen Keller once said "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
Plato wrote "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
Legendary basketball coach John Wooden said: "It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it."
Robespierre wrote "Crime butchers innocence to secure a prize, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
"The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate." Erich Fromm
Elbert Hubbard once wrote "If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate."
Mahatma Gandhi once said "All through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always."
Dale Turner mused "Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future."
Ralph Waldo Emerson said "In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear."
T.S. Eliot wrote "Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow."
T.S. Eliot wrote "Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends."
All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets — writer Cory Doctorow.
Aristotle said, "Evil brings men together."
There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins. Ecclesiastes 7:20
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." Socrates
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." Cicero
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Thomas Paine
Robert Kennedy once said "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul," John Calvin.
Gandhi said "Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."
An old Russian proverb reminds us, "There can be no good without evil."
"Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way," Leo Tolstoy.
The British historian James Anthony Froude once said, "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles," Charles Chaplin.
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." Herman Melville.
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellect." Oscar Wilde.
The Taoist philosopher Lao-tze once wrote, "he who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
"In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological - resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul." - Barbara Ehrenreich
Dostoyevsky once said, “Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him.”
G.K. Chesterton wrote: "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed."
"Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage?" Erasmus.
"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects." Martin Luther.
“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.” - Francisco Goya
16th century English novelist Thomas Deloney wrote, "God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks."
William Shakespeare wrote, "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
"Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities." Author Clive Barker.
The American poet Anne Sexton once wrote "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
Wordsworth wrote, "A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?"
"No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies." Daisy Bates
"It is a wise father that knows his own child." William Shakespeare.
"I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils." Euripides.
"For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won." - Lucy Maud Montgomery
"...within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be." Neuroscientist Dr. R. Joseph.
"There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." Arthur Rubinstein
"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession." - Daniel Webster
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." - Ben Okri
:"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ." John Steinbeck
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." - Tom Stoppard
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses." - George Bernard Shaw
"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find." - John Churton Collins
Susan B. Anthony said, "A woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself."
Author Christian Nestell Bovee once wrote, "No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." - Anatole France
Voltaire said, "The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, is an enthusiast. The man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic."
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. - Ernest Hemingway
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that will." Chuck Palahniuk
Wendell Berry said, "The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it."
"To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly." Benjamin Franklin.
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." Ayn Rand
Thomas Fuller wrote, "A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."
Roman poet Phaedrus wrote, "Things are not always what they seem; The first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few, perceives what has been carefully hidden."
"Plenty sit still. Hunger is a wanderer." Zulu proverb.
"Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea, And the East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be." Gerald Gould
"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest response." Amos Bronson Alcott
"I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay." Bob Dylan
"What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father." Friedrich Nietzsche.
"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance." Gilbert Parker.
"Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles..." Mark Twain.
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author Harlan Ellison wrote, "The minute people fall in love, they become liars."
P. J. O'Rourke wrote, "Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely."
"We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it." Ayn Rand.
"... for he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." William Shakespeare
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." H. L. Mencken.
"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were." President Dwight Eisenhower.
"No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." Sigmund Freud
British historian C. Northcote Parkinson said, "Delay is the deadliest form of denial."
Winston Churchill said, "There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained."
Mario Puzo wrote, "The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other."
"And so, all the night-tide, I lay down by the side. Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. In the sepulchre there by the sea. In her tomb by the sounding sea." Edgar Allan Poe
"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." Stuart Chase
"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." Albert Einstein
Austrian novelist Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach wrote, "In youth we learn; in age we understand."
The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture." Camille Paglia
"He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done." Leonardo da Vinci
"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being." James Joyce
"Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity." Roman author Publilius Syrus
"Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call destiny." John Hobbes
"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out." Tennessee Williams
"I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, is the only sensible way to love." Françoise Sagan
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." Terry Pratchett
Dr. Burton Grebin once said, "To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself."
"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold." Andre Maurois
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." Francis Bacon
"No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible." George Chakiris
"I'm not sure about automobiles. With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization." Booth Tarkington
"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience." Mahatma Gandhi
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it." Helen Keller
"If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity." Flannery O'Connor
"A weak man has doubts before a decision. A strong man has them afterwards." Karl Kraus
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not to be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place." Emily Dickinson
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man." Polybius
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical." Blaise Pascal
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln
Kingman Brewster, Jr. said, "There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness."
William Shakespeare wrote, "These violent delights have violent ends."
Journalist William D. Tammeus wrote, "You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back."
"In all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire - a pariah even among demons." Writer Montague Summers.
Writer Cyril Connolly said, "Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self."
"Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it's an enemy." Albert Einstein
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
Poet Haniel Long said, "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty."
W. S. Gilbert wrote, "It's love that makes the world go round."
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure." Tacitus
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." Washington Irving
Mildred Lisette Norman wrote, "Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."
Isaac Asimov wrote, "In life unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
"Life is a game; play it. Life is too precious; do not destroy it." Mother Teresa
"Experience is a brutal teacher. But you learn -- my God, do you learn." C.S. Lewis
"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have, who then am I? " German psychologist Erich Fromm
"Oh! what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" Sir Walter Scott
"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy" F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Shakespeare wrote, "When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
Nietzsche wrote: "Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man."
Emily Dickinson wrote: "Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all."
Tenessee Williams said :"We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."
Cristopher Lasch said: "Family is a heaven in a heartless world."
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." - Mother Teresa
"A lions work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together." - Chuck Jones
"Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." - Helen Keller
"A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing." - William Dobell
Gandhi says: "I have seen children successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."
"Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man." John Morley
Ralph W. Sockman said, "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength."
"Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man." John Morley
Exams are damn hard. Looks like they are a sure fail. Sigh.
Every episodes have some of these best quotes. Quite educational.
Joseph Conrad said, "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
Emerson said, "All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle."
Faulkner once said, "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Nietzsche once said, "When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you."
Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world."
Samuel Johnson wrote, "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
French poet Jacques Rigaut said, "Don't forget that I cannot see myself. My role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror."
Rose Kennedy once said, "Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them."
Euripides said, "When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
Euripides said, "When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness."
Nietzsche wrote, "The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Hemingway wrote, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else.”
Carl Jung said, "The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
Robert Oxton Bolt once wrote, "A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind."
Albert Einstein asked, "The question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or the others crazy?"
Sir Peter Ustinov said, "Unfortunately, a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."
Playwright Eugene Ionesco said, "Ideology separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
Harriet Beecher Stowe once said "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
The poet, W. H. Auden wrote, 'Evil is unspectacular, and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our table.'"
"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Roman philosopher Lucretius said, "What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."
Confucius warned us, "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. (Genesis 9:6)
Albert Pine said, "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."
Norman Maclean wrote, "It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."
Nietzsche wrote, "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."
Gandhi said, "Better to be violent if there's violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."
Gandhi also said, "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent."
W. H. Auden said, "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness."
Diane Arbus once said, "A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."
Bernard Shaw once said, "An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country."
Anthony Brandt wrote, "Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."
Mexican proverb, “The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.”
The author François de la Rochefoucauld wrote, "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
The French philosopher Voltaire wrote, "There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."
Albert Einstein said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
George Orwell said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
Writer Elbert Hubbard said, "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." French writer François de la Rochefoucauld.
"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." Rose Kennedy.
Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer said "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
Mark Twain wrote "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
Philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth," Oscar Wilde
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone," Milan Kundera
Helen Keller once said "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
Plato wrote "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
Legendary basketball coach John Wooden said: "It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it."
Robespierre wrote "Crime butchers innocence to secure a prize, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
"The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate." Erich Fromm
Elbert Hubbard once wrote "If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate."
Mahatma Gandhi once said "All through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always."
Dale Turner mused "Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future."
Ralph Waldo Emerson said "In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear."
T.S. Eliot wrote "Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow."
T.S. Eliot wrote "Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends."
All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets — writer Cory Doctorow.
Aristotle said, "Evil brings men together."
There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins. Ecclesiastes 7:20
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." Socrates
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." Cicero
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Thomas Paine
Robert Kennedy once said "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul," John Calvin.
Gandhi said "Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."
An old Russian proverb reminds us, "There can be no good without evil."
"Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way," Leo Tolstoy.
The British historian James Anthony Froude once said, "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles," Charles Chaplin.
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." Herman Melville.
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellect." Oscar Wilde.
The Taoist philosopher Lao-tze once wrote, "he who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
"In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological - resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul." - Barbara Ehrenreich
Dostoyevsky once said, “Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him.”
G.K. Chesterton wrote: "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed."
"Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage?" Erasmus.
"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects." Martin Luther.
“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.” - Francisco Goya
16th century English novelist Thomas Deloney wrote, "God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks."
William Shakespeare wrote, "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
"Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities." Author Clive Barker.
The American poet Anne Sexton once wrote "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
Wordsworth wrote, "A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?"
"No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies." Daisy Bates
"It is a wise father that knows his own child." William Shakespeare.
"I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils." Euripides.
"For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won." - Lucy Maud Montgomery
"...within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be." Neuroscientist Dr. R. Joseph.
"There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." Arthur Rubinstein
"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession." - Daniel Webster
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." - Ben Okri
:"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ." John Steinbeck
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." - Tom Stoppard
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses." - George Bernard Shaw
"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find." - John Churton Collins
Susan B. Anthony said, "A woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself."
Author Christian Nestell Bovee once wrote, "No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." - Anatole France
Voltaire said, "The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, is an enthusiast. The man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic."
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. - Ernest Hemingway
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that will." Chuck Palahniuk
Wendell Berry said, "The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it."
"To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly." Benjamin Franklin.
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." Ayn Rand
Thomas Fuller wrote, "A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."
Roman poet Phaedrus wrote, "Things are not always what they seem; The first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few, perceives what has been carefully hidden."
"Plenty sit still. Hunger is a wanderer." Zulu proverb.
"Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea, And the East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be." Gerald Gould
"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest response." Amos Bronson Alcott
"I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay." Bob Dylan
"What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father." Friedrich Nietzsche.
"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance." Gilbert Parker.
"Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles..." Mark Twain.
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author Harlan Ellison wrote, "The minute people fall in love, they become liars."
P. J. O'Rourke wrote, "Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely."
"We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it." Ayn Rand.
"... for he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." William Shakespeare
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." H. L. Mencken.
"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were." President Dwight Eisenhower.
"No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." Sigmund Freud
British historian C. Northcote Parkinson said, "Delay is the deadliest form of denial."
Winston Churchill said, "There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained."
Mario Puzo wrote, "The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other."
"And so, all the night-tide, I lay down by the side. Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. In the sepulchre there by the sea. In her tomb by the sounding sea." Edgar Allan Poe
"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." Stuart Chase
"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." Albert Einstein
Austrian novelist Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach wrote, "In youth we learn; in age we understand."
The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture." Camille Paglia
"He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done." Leonardo da Vinci
"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being." James Joyce
"Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity." Roman author Publilius Syrus
"Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call destiny." John Hobbes
"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out." Tennessee Williams
"I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, is the only sensible way to love." Françoise Sagan
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." Terry Pratchett
Dr. Burton Grebin once said, "To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself."
"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold." Andre Maurois
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." Francis Bacon
"No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible." George Chakiris
"I'm not sure about automobiles. With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization." Booth Tarkington
"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience." Mahatma Gandhi
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it." Helen Keller
"If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity." Flannery O'Connor
"A weak man has doubts before a decision. A strong man has them afterwards." Karl Kraus
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not to be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place." Emily Dickinson
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man." Polybius
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical." Blaise Pascal
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln
Kingman Brewster, Jr. said, "There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness."
William Shakespeare wrote, "These violent delights have violent ends."
Journalist William D. Tammeus wrote, "You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back."
"In all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire - a pariah even among demons." Writer Montague Summers.
Writer Cyril Connolly said, "Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self."
"Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it's an enemy." Albert Einstein
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
Poet Haniel Long said, "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty."
W. S. Gilbert wrote, "It's love that makes the world go round."
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure." Tacitus
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." Washington Irving
Mildred Lisette Norman wrote, "Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."
Isaac Asimov wrote, "In life unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
"Life is a game; play it. Life is too precious; do not destroy it." Mother Teresa
"Experience is a brutal teacher. But you learn -- my God, do you learn." C.S. Lewis
"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have, who then am I? " German psychologist Erich Fromm
"Oh! what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" Sir Walter Scott
"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy" F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Shakespeare wrote, "When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
Nietzsche wrote: "Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man."
Emily Dickinson wrote: "Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all."
Tenessee Williams said :"We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."
Cristopher Lasch said: "Family is a heaven in a heartless world."
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." - Mother Teresa
"A lions work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together." - Chuck Jones
"Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." - Helen Keller
"A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing." - William Dobell
Gandhi says: "I have seen children successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."
"Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man." John Morley
Ralph W. Sockman said, "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength."
"Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man." John Morley
Exams are damn hard. Looks like they are a sure fail. Sigh.
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