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... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

A brick could be used to manipulate people into doing what you want. If anything could offer one man an unfair advantage over another, it’s a brick—especially if that brick is made of gold. 

Blanket

The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Don't you love your mother, dear?" "I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else.

Brother Odd

My point," Jason said, "is that blaming each other isn't going to solve anything. That's how the Romans and the Greeks got divided in the first place.

The Blood of Olympus

Bit literacy means letting the bits go; anything else perpetuates the problem.

Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

I didn't realize it until now, but I don't really know anything about them, or what kind of people they are, really. You can't see inside a person's heart.

Battle Royale

I don't think sleeping with you is going to solve anything," she said, stopping at the guest bedroom door. "I don't really care what you think.

To the Brink

You overestimate the courage of those in power. They are often more interested in holding on to that power than in doing anything worthwhile with it.

The Burning Sky

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.

Counting by 7s

Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds. Tessa: Well, they are, aren't they? Isn't there anything you love like that?

Clockwork Angel

He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved.

City of Fallen Angels

Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it.

Cloud Atlas

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

I was never a glamour puss whose career was really based on a look or an attitude. I've been basically playing the same parts I am at 55 that I was at 35. I get cast as strong women, and that can be a mother or a judge or anything.

Jane Kaczmarek

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

Maeve Binchy

It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is uniqu...

Shania Twain

If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything.

Tom Stoppard