Random Inspirational Quotes

"Democracy, Really [10w] A democracy is free to replace one tyranny with another."

"People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff."

"Poetry vs. Prose [10w] Prose is the bread of imagination;poetry is the wine."

"Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?"

"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears."

"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire."

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."

"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure."

"I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit.The thought behind, I strove to joinUnto the thought before—But Sequence ravelled out of SoundLike Balls—upon a Floor."

"If I had no clothes it’d be winter. If I were naked, it’d be the truth and we could lie together."

"This cruel age has deflected me,like a river from this course.Strayed from its familiar shores,my changeling life has flowedinto a sister channel.How many spectacles I've missed:the curtain rising without me,and falling too. How many friendsI never had the chance to meet."

"Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go."

"Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven."

"There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon."

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."

"I don't want to believe. I want to know."

"Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom."

"Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea."

"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."

"The more I read, the less I know."