"The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it."

-- May Sarton

#People Quotes #Looks Quotes #Ruthlessness Quotes

“It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one way or another, on every aspect of computers and computerization. And (mark this!) I did it without ever knowing anything at all about computers in any real sense. To this day, I don't. I am totally inept with machinery... on my typewriter I turn out books at the contemptible rate of one a month”
“First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.”
“If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.”
“Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.”
“Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.”
“God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.”

Source : Toast before the Vicksburg Campaign on February 22, 1863. "A Popular and Authentic Life of Ulysses S. Grant". Book by Edward Deering Mansfield, 1868.
“My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.”
“What I found most ironic is that the safest part for us as journalists was during the actual war. Back then, during that stage of fighting, we were not targets. After the war itself, during the first month or two, it was extremely safe. We could go anywhere in Iraq, talk to anyone, and didn't have to worry about anything.”

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