
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
Categories: H. P. Lovecraft

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
Categories: H. P. Lovecraft

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Categories: George Bernard Shaw

In this day and age, the type of society we find ourselves living in, every person of worth needs to have a gun at all times to protect themselves.
from: A Scanner Darkly (2006)
-- James Barris
Categories: James Barris,
Robert Downey Jr.,
A Scanner Darkly

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
Categories: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war; we do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough, more than enough, of war and hate and oppression.
Categories: John F. Kennedy

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.
-- Michelangelo
Categories: Michelangelo

Science has great beauty, and with its great spiritual strength, will in time cleanse this world of its evils, its ignorance, its poverty, diseases, wars, and heartaches.
from: Madame Curie (1943)
-- Madame Curie
Categories: Madame Curie,
Greer Garson

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
-- George Eliot
Categories: George Eliot

You don't feel respected? Well, maybe you're not. But to get respect, you have to give it.
from: Freedom Writers (2007)
-- Erin Gruwell
Categories: Erin Gruwell,
Hilary Swank,
Freedom Writers

Calm down. (In Russian) Anger is very dangerous, makes people do stupid things.
from: Eastern Promises (2007)
Categories: Nikolai Luzhin,
Viggo Mortensen,
Eastern Promises

Once a year the eyes of a nation turn to this tiny hamlet in western Pennsylvania to watch a master at work. The master, Punxatawney Phil, the world's most famous weatherman, the groundhog, who, as legend has it, can predict the coming of an early spring. So, I guess the question we have to ask ourselves today is: Does Phil feel lucky?
from: Groundhog Day (1993)
-- Phil Connors
Categories: Phil Connors,
Bill Murray,
Groundhog Day

Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.
Categories: Saddam Hussein