Quotaria

"Forgiveness is the key
to action and freedom."
- Hannah Arendt

"History is a gallery of pictures in which
there are few originals and many copies."
- Alexis de Tocqueville

"There is only one success - to be able
to spend your life in your own way."
- Christopher Morley

"When we try to pick out anything
by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the universe."
- John Muir

"Nature is the master of talents;
genius is the master of nature."
- J. G. Holland

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch,
you must first create the universe."
- Carl Sagan

Quotaria

"The earth is the very
quintessence of the
human condition."
- Hannah Arendt

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever
found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but
it must likewise be added, that he had not often a
friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
- Samuel Johnson

"Try to make at least one person happy every day, and then
in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred
and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your
contribution to the fund of general enjoyment."
- Sydney Smith, English Clergyman

"We are drawn to our television sets each April
the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident."
- Vincent Canby

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers
to our true selves, to one another, and to the
spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from
an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
- R. D. Laing

Leadership is based on inspiration, not
domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
- William Arthur Wood

Quotes

We must let the contradictions stand as they
are, make them understood as contradictions,
and grasp what lies beneath them.
- Hannah Arendt, Love and Saint Augustine.

Poison Ivy: He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me. He loves me...
Mr. Freeze: NOT! Surprise, I am your new cell mate. And I'm here to
 make your life a living hell. Prepare for a bitter harvest.
 Winter has come at last.
- Batman & Robin (1997)

"Fall not in love, therefore;
it will stick to your face."
- National Lampoon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath
not some strangeness in the proportion."
- Sir Francis Bacon

"The nice thing about egotists is that
they don't talk about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper

"It isn't necessary to have relatives
in Kansas City in order to be unhappy."
- Groucho Marx