Harper Lee Famous Quotes
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
Harper Lee Quotations
"Too bad you can't just grab a tree by the very tip-top and bend it clear over the ground and then let her fly, because I bet you'd be amazed at all the stuff that comes flying out."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
"The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that whenever the Kingdom of God was concerned Jesus was absolutely uncompromising, even when he realized that for him personally the alternative to compromise was crucifixion."
Ernest Fremont Title
"Above all else, never think you're not good enough."
Anthony Trollope
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Maurice Setter
"My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat."
Henny Youngman
In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.
William Seward Burroughs
"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."
Steven Weinberg
"No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them."
Alan B Watts
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
Mark Twain