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“I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.”
George Carlin
“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.”
Jim Morrison
“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”
Jim Morrison
“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.”
Jim Morrison
“I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.”
Edward Hopper
“My secrets must be poetic to be believable.”
Mick Jagger
“I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.”
Mick Jagger
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
William James
“Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.”
William James
“Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.”
William James
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
William James
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
William James
“Belief creates the actual fact.”
William James
“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”
William James
“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.”
William James
“Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!”
William James
“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.”
William James
“I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.”
Kim Kardashian
“I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I've always thought.”
Kim Kardashian
“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
Stephen King
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
Stephen King
“I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.”
Stephen King
“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy