In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.


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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over...
JAMES MADISON
The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is...
JAMES MADISON
In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take ...
JAMES MADISON
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea...
JAMES MADISON
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is t...
JAMES MADISON
I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinate...
JAMES MADISON
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ...
JAMES MADISON
A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue t...
JAMES MADISON
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
JAMES THURBER
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER
Buy a book in brown paper
From Faber and Faber
To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut....
JAMES PUREFOY
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanat...
JAMES SINEGAL
I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, '...
JAMES BAY
I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
JAMES PUREFOY
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruct...
JAMES LARKIN
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singula...
JAMES THURBER
Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the broth...
JAMES SALTER
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
JAMES MONTGOMERY
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and br...
JAMES SUROWIECKI
Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.
JAMES COMEY
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ...
JAMES THURBER
All are equal
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And...
JAMES SHIRLEY
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating t...
JAMES THURBER
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both...
JAMES THURBER
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow...
JAMES THURBER
I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular moral forces...
WILLIAM JAMES
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time an...
WILLIAM JAMES
On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb...
JAMES BEATTIE
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
JAMES BEATTIE
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional ...
JAMES SUROWIECKI
I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
LEBRON JAMES
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the ...
JAMES BUCHAN
We have two programs dealing with bulletproof vests, two different systems of actually distributing ...
JAMES LANKFORD
For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.
CHERYL JAMES
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to ...
JAMES GLEICK