The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every...
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Philip Pullman
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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Leo Tolstoy
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
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Cassandra Clare
The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.
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Rachel Vincent
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Viktor E. Frankl
More Quotes By Walter Lippmann
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.
The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.
His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.
