Miscellaneous Quotes

• History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

• The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

• Every exit is an entry somewhere.

• We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.

• Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.

• I figure wherever I am, that's the place to be.

• Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will.

• At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

• I don't like to share my personal life...it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.

• I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

• When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

• A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

• We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

• Without losers, where would the winners be?

• An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind.

• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

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