Monday Gif Quotes

#1. I'm very bad at delegating writing responsibilities, because I've never been able to do it; I've never had any help or looked for any help.

Michael Hirst

#2. Any man in love with Cesare is already half in love with his sister. Now, when [Pedro Calderon] shuts his eyes, he cannot see anything else.

Sarah Dunant

#3. All that could run or leap or swim
Whether in wood, water or cloud,
Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.

William Butler Yeats

#4. Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.

Eugene V. Debs

#6. The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message is clear and concise ... Egalitarianism is sinful; it's also cowardly.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.

Dorothy Parker

#8. I thought with all this freedom and self-discovery and expression of our love stuff that we could finally stop with the whole Zen master wisdom and practical advice crap.

Richelle Mead

#9. There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

William McIlvanney

#10. [Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers, but things of thought to which there could correspond effective objects or relations, even though such a correspondence is not necessary.

Hermann Hankel

#11. The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.

Adyashanti

#12. Fiction has the incredible power to put readers into the lives and minds of characters whose backgrounds and natures are nothing like theirs, and create an empathy and understanding that readers can take into the real world.

Cheryl B. Klein

#13. The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

Lena Dunham