Compulsions Quotes

I am not what happened to me,

I am what I choose to become.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools,

but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity

in short, of tyranny

and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

Get action.

Seize the moment.

Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Hope is a good breakfast,

but it is a bad supper.

Being elected to Congress,

though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it,

has not pleased me as much as I expected.

We are made of star stuff.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

Physics is like sex: sure,

it may give some practical results,

but that’s not why we do it.

Success is the best revenge.

I don’t deal with mediocrity.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Speak the truth,

and all things alive or brute are vouchers,

and the very roots of the grass underground there,

do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

We suffer from an incurable disease called hope.

How lucky Adam was.

He knew when he said a good thing,

nobody had said it before.

Character is higher than intellect.

A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

All things are artificial artificial, for nature is the art of God.

We’re surrounded.

That simplifies our problem of getting to

these people and killing them.

Don’t wait for the stars to align,

reach up and rearrange them the way you want.

Create your own constellation.

I start drawing,

and eventually the characters,

involve themselves in a situation,

Then in the end,

I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

Perfection is not attainable,

but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.