Anatole Broyard Famous Quotes
"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."
Anatole Broyard Quotations
"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."
Quentin Crisp
"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
Henry Miller
"Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan."
Epictetus
"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
Ambrose Bierce
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
Bob Wells
Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.
Wess Roberts
"Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil."
I Ching
"A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."
Barbra Streisand
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Sren Kierkegaard