DOMAI Beauty of the Day
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[Do you like the women of DOMAI, but you want to see "more" of them? A bit of kitty? Go to GoddessNudes, our "naughty" sister-site. Super-discount for signing up for both my sites.] Quotes archive: You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. -- James Lane Allen Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance. Joseph Addison I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement. -- Lois McMaster Bujold The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. John Foster Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. -- Bob Wells It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong. -- Warren Buffett One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. -- Bertrand Russell "Image is powerful. But image is superficial." Cameron Russell, model The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. -- J. K. Rowling There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. -- Martin Gardner, "The Mathematical Magic Show" To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. -- Henry Miller Oh for a book and a shady nook... -- John Wilson Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly. -- Hugh Macleod I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. -- Buzz Aldrin Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. -- Edward R. Murrow So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. -- Andre Gide Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there. -- Clare Booth Luce On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. -- George Orwell True friends are always together in spirit. -- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. - Malcolm Cowley Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. -- Ovid Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. -- Dandemis The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience. -- David P. Mikkelson A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. -- May Sarton Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. -- Jawaharlal Nehru You dont have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form. -- Francis Ford Coppola Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. -- Sophia Loren There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' -- Andre Gide A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. -- Segal's Law Whatever the circle of hell in which we live, I think we are free to break out of it. And if people do not break out, they stay there of their own free will. Jean-Paul Sartre Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. -- Aristotle He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. -- Douglas Adams It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. -- Vachel Lindsay Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. -- Edwin Schlossberg You can only be young once. But you
can always be immature. -- Dave Barry By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up. -- Eve Babitz If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. -- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. -- J. Arthur Thomson What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself. -- Paul Hawken To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. -- Benjamin Disraeli Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. - Lord Chesterfield Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. -- Evan Esar Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. -- Andre Gide An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. -- Anatole France Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. -- Henry David Thoreau Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, last words Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason. -- John Kord Lagemann Painting is an attempt to come to
terms with life. There are as many solutions as
there are human beings. -- George Tooker The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. -- David Friedman In answer to the question of why it
happened, I offer the modest proposal that our
Universe is simply one of those things which
happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong. -- Sean Stewart Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain. -- Sharon Salzberg Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. -- Thomas Paine The only way to have a friend is to be one. -- Ralph Waldo EmersonKnowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes All
things are to be examined and called into
question. There are no limits set on thought. Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. -- Robert Orben Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. -- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners) I am no more humble than my talents require. -- Oscar Levant Beauty is the light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. -- Arthur C. Clarke Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. -- Edith Wharton
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