90% of all failures in life are those who have the habit of making excuses.
His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon him, as a glutton can shift upon his cook the responsibility...
I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living.
As you and I take Personal Responsibility for mending the things that are out of order in our community and nation in general, we would surely witness a transformed, developed and civilized society.
I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.
I will not add to the world's problem, I will not leave the world the way I met it; I will strive with every breath of my life to live the world a better place than I met it.
We were all born equal, but where we are in life now is of our own making.
You'd have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to know what you're getting yourself into, so if there's blame, blame yourself.
The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....