Quotable quotes

[opinterph]

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[smokeshadow]

when people used words like weapons ~

"He had delusions of adequacy."
Walter Kerr - US Critic


"He had all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston S Churchill - UK Politician

It's what is known as a rapier wit

 

[rareboy]

 

[pornoboy]

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[Rand]

more rapier wit, per Smokeshadow~

George Bernard Shaw (UK Playwright) to Winston Churchill (UK politician):
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play. Bring a friend if you have one."

Winston Churchill, in response:
"Cannot possibly attend first night, I will attend the second . . . if there is one."

 

[Alistair]

 

[Norri]

“Time resolves more problems than men solve”.

Will Durant

 

[Rand]

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[Alistair]

"If only my heart were as cold as I pretend it is, maybe I could get over this"

-Jessica Katoff

 

[Peloso]

“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

— Oscar Wilde

 

[Alistair]

 

[metta]

 

[metta]

 

[Alistair]

“I still don’t know why my playing is considered so disturbing,. I remember in school, as a child, I learned that the flame of a candle is composed of a yellow light, which actually burns, and a blue light within it, which is ice cold. That is true of human beings as well. Perhaps it is the sight of that blue light in me that frightens certain people.”

Pianist Alexis Weisssenberg

 

[rareboy]

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“For happiness, he told himself, isn’t being loved; that was just a slightly nauseous satisfaction of vanity. Happiness is loving and perhaps seizing a few short illusory moments of intimacy with the object of one’s love.”

― Thomas Mann

 

[Rand]

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[Rand]

since no one likes the last post on a page ~

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[opinterph]

“Problems aren't there to be 'solved'; they are pairs of opposites that between them produce a tension that is called life.”

– Carl Jung