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liars alive heroism
Audre Lorde I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
liars world paper
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
liars shifting events
Deb Caletti All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.
liars lying eye
Kurt Vonnegut A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!
liars good-times timing
Bernard Baruch Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
liars self order
Cheryl Strayed The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?
liars lying believe
Charlie Munger Projections are put together by people who have an interest in a particular outcome, have a subconscious bias, and its apparent precision makes it fallacious. They remind me of Mark Twain's saying, 'A mine is a hole in the ground owned by a liar.' Projections in America are often a lie, although not an intentional one, but the worst kind because the forecaster often believes them himself.
liars earthquakes fool
Charles Francis Richter Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
intelligent men thinking
Alan Watts But, as Douglas E Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as absurd as thinking of the human body as a cell infested skeleton. Surely all forms of life, including man, must be understood as "symptoms" of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy in which case we cannot escape the conclusion that the galaxy is intelligent.
intelligent people creative
Akio Morita Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
intelligent perception-of-beauty judgement
David Hume There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or from Sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgement of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species.
intelligent skills rude
David Hume Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever active and intelligent, refines them from their brute state, and fits them for human use and convenience.
intelligent thinking important
Benedict Cumberbatch Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
intelligent worry behaviour
Benedict Cumberbatch 'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.
intelligent hands political
Frederic Bastiat I find it hard to understand why those who demand Unitary Education by the State do not also demand a Unitary Press by the State... Either the State is infallible, in which case we could not do better than to submit to it the entire domain of intelligent thought, or it is not, in which case it is no more rational to hand over education to it than the press.
intelligent bird slaughterhouse-five
Kurt Vonnegut It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?
intelligent laughing grace
C. S. Lewis Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.
compassion sick confusion
Charles Dickens Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain!
compassion students computer
Alan Perlis When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
compassion heaven gold
Alan Paton And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
compassion long people
Alan Alda Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
compassion light hesitation
Chogyam Trungpa Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things
compassion creative be-kind
Chogyam Trungpa When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up
compassion silence darkness
Edith Wharton What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
compassion careers empathy
Audrey Hepburn nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.
compassion two people
Bill Nighy One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.