BottenRasterd’s Submitted Quotes

What you risk reveals what you value.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.  

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word.

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. 

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. 

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. 

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. 

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.