Bad Man's Quotes

#1. And when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.

N.K. Jemisin

#2. We, too, can divide ourselves, it's true. / But only into flesh and a broken whisper. / Into flesh and poetry.

Wislawa Szymborska

#3. All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

Homer

#4. Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

Lucas Papademos

#5. Go sweep out the chamber of your heart.
Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved.
When you depart out, He will enter it.
In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties.

Mahmud Shabistari

#6. If there is a single maxim that runs through this book's arguments, it is that we are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.

Steven Johnson

#7. Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

Matthieu Ricard

#8. Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

Alfred North Whitehead

#9. It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

Kathy Bates

#11. The world needs to see that this church, of all organizations on the face of the earth, honors women.

M. Russell Ballard

#12. Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.

Tim Vine