“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
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“… They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”
Zadie Smith book White Teeth
Variant: Because this is the other thing about immigrants: they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
Source: White Teeth (2000)
“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”
Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States
Gerhard Gschwandtner, Great Thoughts to Sell By: Quotes to Motivate You to Success, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007, ISBN 0071475990, p. 89.
Attributed
“What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?”
Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.”
Mitch Albom (1958) American author
Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven
“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”
Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer
“You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”
Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Principles of Social Reconstruction [Originally titled Why Men Fight : A Method Of Abolishing The International Duel], Ch. VIII : What We Can Do, p. 257
1910s
Context: It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. The State and Property are the great embodiments of possessiveness; it is for this reason that they are against life, and that they issue in war. Possession means taking or keeping some good thing which another is prevented from enjoying; creation means putting into the world a good thing which otherwise no one would be able to enjoy. Since the material goods of the world must be divided among the population, and since some men are by nature brigands, there must be defensive possession, which will be regulated, in a good community, by some principle of impersonal justice. But all this is only the preface to a good life or good political institutions, in which creation will altogether outweigh possession, and distributive justice will exist as an uninteresting matter of course.
The supreme principle, both in politics and in private life, should be to promote all that is creative, and so to diminish the impulses and desires that center round possession.
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart
“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
As cited in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007), Ed. Goodwin, Black Dog Publishing, p. 49, ISBN 1579127215
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variant: I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Ch. 3, p. 72) http://books.google.com/books?id=CoP1GxjoNnsC&q=&quot;The+history+of+men's+opposition+to+women's+emancipation+is+more+interesting+perhaps+than+the+story+of+that+emancipation+itself&quot;&pg=PA72#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: A Room of One's Own (1929)