Passion

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  • My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
        Trieu Thi Trinh   Best?
  • What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Discretion is not the better part of biography.
        Lytton Strachey   Best?
  • We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
        Colley Cibber   Best?
  • Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
        Menander   Best?
  • When griping grief the heart doth wound,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
        William Ralph Inge   Best?
  • I understand a fury in your words,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • We are the hero of our own story.
        Mary McCarthy   Best?
  • Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
        Jacob A. Riis   Best?
  • Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • INCUMBENT, n. A person of the liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
        Marilyn Monroe   Best?
  • Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
        Alexis Carrel   Best?
  • It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
        Brigitte Bardot   Best?
  • An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
        Bible   Best?
  • Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Keep cool and you command everybody.
        Louis de Saint-Just   Best?
  • A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
        Frank Leahy   Best?
  • Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
        T.S. Elliot   Best?
  • My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
        Nancy Astor   Best?
  • Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
        Joseph Addison   Best?
  • I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare.
        Tori Amos   Best?
  • It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
        Jerry Garcia   Best?
  • We have to believe in free will. We've got no choice.
        Isaac Bashevis Singer   Best?
  • Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!
        William Wordsworth   Best?
  • Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.
        Archbishop Ireland   Best?
  • Lighter is the wound foreseen.
        Cato   Best?
  • All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
        Doris Lessing   Best?
  • The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
        Umberto Eco   Best?
  • Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • We are not separate from spirit, we are in it.
        Plotinus   Best?

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