The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BC
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A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929I do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestShips at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCTo safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673