My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express.
People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.
We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult.
Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it. "