We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. – James Ramsey Ullman Category: Civilization
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden Category: Civilization
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History Category: Civilization
I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. – Bertrand Russell Category: Civilization
Im a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really. – Leighton Meester Category: alone
Children are a great comfort in your old age — and they help you reach it faster, too. – Lionel Kauffman Category: Parents
I cant really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I dont see why I should. – Sting Category: Change
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell Category: Poetry
