quotes of day Monday, October 19, 2026

“Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.”

“The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.”

“I must do something or I shall wear my heart away.”

“Abuse of power isn't limited to 'bad guys' in other nations. It happens in our own country. Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced by power itself. I have a reverence for individuality. I've always considered myself too individualistic to be either right-wing or left-wing. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. People should be able to be what they want to be and do what they want - as long as they're not harming other people. I am a libertarian.”

“I've enjoyed the conversations that we've had. [Donald Trump] is somebody who I think is not lacking in confidence.”

“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”

“Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.”

“You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.”

“The only way that you can ever know if something is of value to you is by the way it feels as you are receiving it”

“I am crazy about mysterious things.”

“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”

“When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.”

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”

“How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?”

“Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.”

“The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.”

“What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.”