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Some never escape from the imprisoning conviction that a cold or unattainable lover can be persuaded to become warm or attainable if they only discover the key.
— Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
Obsessed is a word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated.
— Anonymous
It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm.
— Donald Hall, Essays After Eighty
It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines.
— Matthew De Abaitua, If Then
Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
The rest of the short walk was silent. It was that loud sortof silence where the absence is painful, when there’s so much tosay, but nothing is said.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Circle of Betrayal
But she just couldn’t stop checking her phone; she wantedto stop, tried to stop, but the pull would not let her go. It wasa strange experience for her to be doing the obsessive phone-checkingthing. Vanessa talked about it, and she had heard storiesabout it from other friends. One date with a guy and suddenlythe phone becomes like an appendage endowed with some superpower to predict your future.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Circle of Betrayal
I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.
— Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes
I was obsessed. I couldn't stop myself. It was not healthy, but I couldn't stop. I didn't feel like there was anything else in my life to stop for. We all have periods of our life when we're trapped doing something we hate and we develop habits that have nothing to do with our long-term goals to fill the downtime, right? I hope you identify with that idea. It's the only way I can explain becoming so emotionally invested in a video game that I would get in my car and drive around town sobbing if my internet went out.
— Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet
Follow the ideal doing,grind the beans just before brewing.Use spring water,for softened water,makes a horror.A parley perfect,between the coffee,and the milk,with some,	brown sugar thick.” (Poem: An apology of a coffee lunatic, Book: Ginger and Honey)
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber, Ginger and Honey
Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule.
— Unica Zürn, Dark Spring
Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.
— Peter Ackroyd, Venice: Pure City
Lane, I will become attached to you. It happens with everyone. Something about my personality makes me latch on to people. First, it was my friend Tina, then Liam, and now you. I’m sorry, but I know it will happen. It already is happening. Now that we’ve had sex, I don’t want you out of my sight.
— K.  Webster, Apartment 2B
…Get me a cappuccino,with toasties,flavored in Jalapeno.”“Anything special for the cappuccino?”He asked, the waiter chivalrous.“Follow the ideal doing,grind the beans just before brewing.Use spring water,for softened water,makes a horror.A parley perfect,between the coffee,and the milk,with some,	brown sugar thick.” (Poem: An apology of a coffee lunatic, Book: Ginger and Honey)
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber, Ginger and Honey
Some men are like that - they get a woman in their mind, and that's that. They will destroy themselves and everyone else over her; they will let everything else fall apart.
— Paul Elwork
But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].
— Caroline Kepnes, You
I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
The pleasure I found in reading books was disconcerting...I felt anxious about every new piece of information. I would latch onto one particular detail and start look for references and other versions of it in other writings. I remembered, for example, that for quite some time I tracked down the subject of kissing. I read and read and felt dizzy with the subject, as if I had eaten a psychotropic fruit.
— Hassan Blasim, The Iraqi Christ
It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthralled with the buttons on Lestat's black coat that I looked at nothing else for a long time.
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Nothing and no one had ever belonged to him and only him—except Legion. Not that she would do anything necessary to save him, nor would he do anything necessary to save her. But. Yeah, there was always a but with him. He had been her first lover—and he wanted to be her last.
— Gena Showalter, The Darkest Seduction
In recent months, the emotional aspect has become as necessary to me as the physical. It amuses me, this strange quirk of mine. I want my little captive to love me, to care about me. I want to be more than just the monster of her nightmares.
— Anna Zaires, Keep Me
I worry about you. You’re good with people, I’ve seen it. You like them. But there’s a limit for you.” He opened his mouth to protest but she held up her hand to silence him. “I know. You do care. But inside the framework of a project. Right now it’s your studies. Later it’ll be roads and bridges. But people around you—their lives go on outside the framework. They’re not just tools to your hand, even likable tools. Your life should go on, too. You should have more than roads to live for. Because if something does go wrong, you’ll need what you’re feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.
— Kij Johnson, The Man Who Bridged the Mist
Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...
— Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
The beauty of love is that it demands to be two sided, otherwise its nothing but another obsession.
— Musawir Masood
Obsession and possession are just sessions destined to end soon.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.
— Dean Cavanagh
Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
She came downstairs like a doe stepping into a clearing on the first day of hunting season. I felt like a coward. I was lower than dirt. I had used every trick in my book to get her to come downstairs. I had manipulated her emotions, cheated and wormed to beat her at this game we were playing. But then I saw her, and I was so happy. I knew I would have burned the building down for the sight of her running toward me out of the flames.
— Candice Raquel Lee, The Innocent: A Myth
Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.
— Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
I needed them, sure, and we can all argue about the moment when the balance tipped and I needed them so much that I would hurt. But you can't pretend they didn't need me too, each in his or her way. They wouldn't necessarily have admitted it - except Reza - but you can't tell me they didn't love me. The heart knows. The body knows. When I was with Sirena, or Reza, or Skandar, the air moved differently between us; time passed differently; words or gestures meant more than themselves. If you've never had this experience-but who has not been visited by love, laughing?-then you can't understand. And if you have, you don't need me to say another word.
— Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs
If someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me - and I long to mention it myself. I start subjects leading up to it, and then I feel myself going red. I keep swearing to myself not to speak to him again - and then an opportunity occurs and I jump at it!
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
One night, we somehow ended up discussing Wile E. Coyote as a paradigm for obsession. She argued that Wile E., with all the resources he wasted on gadgets, could have been living high on the hog.“He was so skinny,” she complained after she had Googled him and watched a few skits on YouTube. “Poor thing, he looks like a size-zero model.”“But, Love, no other food would have satisfied him. He only wanted the Road Runner. He was obsessed with her. Obsession does not allow for satisfaction. You can never really eat your cake and have it too, which is the only way you can satisfy your obsession by devouring and yet having the object of your fascination,” I said from experience.“But he really didn't want to catch it,” she argued.“What do you mean?”“It was the chase he wanted. To eat the Road Runner would have ended that, ended his only reason for living. He isn't really that inept. He really didn't want to catch it.”“I guess not,” I said, thoughtfully. “It's the journey not the resolution that matters. If he caught her, he would lie down next to her and die too.
— Candice Raquel Lee, The Innocent: A Myth
Loved with obsessive devotion, hated with barely controlled fury.
— Heather McCollum, Siren's Song
Numbers are the only things you can trust in this life, Kerstin; they will keep you sane.’Summer Lies Bleeding
— Nuala Casey
Thomas finally tired of playing with me mentally and moved into phase two of his obsession to rid himself of me. I was informed continually that resistance would be futile, and there was no way to escape
— Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out
... it’s you. You with that bloody obsession, that love of other that runs like a seam of gold through you. That life unlike any other. That wild, endless curiosity. Obsession. Even that maddening fucking code of honor. All of it. You, Benedict. You–
— Jae T. Jaggart, Objects Of His Obsession
Obsession is hard work and can only be performed at full speed for short periods of time.
— Raymond L. Atkins, The Front Porch Prophet
Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I'd be exponentially more messed up than I am already.
— Arlaina Tibensky, And Then Things Fall Apart
I don’t want to say it, I truly don’t, but if you’ve gone this far I suppose it’s obvious that what was ignited when I loved you continues to burn. But that’s of small importance to you now, and that’s how it should be. Everything is in its place. The past rests, breathing faintly in the darkness. It no longer holds me as it used to; now I must reach back to touch it. It is night and I am alone and there is still time, a moment more. I am standing on a long black stage, with a circle of light on me, which is my love for you, enduring. I have escaped—or have been expelled—from eternity and am back in time. But I step out once more to sing this aria, this confession, this testament without end. My arms open wide, not to embrace you but to embrace the world, the mystery we are caught in. There is no orchestra, no audience; it is an empty theater in the middle of the night and all the clocks in the world are ticking. And now for this last time, Jade, I don’t mind, or even ask if it is madness: I see your face, I see you, you; I see you in every seat.
— Scott Spencer, Endless Love
For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
— Garcilaso de la Vega
Mature men look into the ladies hearts.Immature ones mention constantly their body parts.They mentioned sex like they’re obsessed.Enslaved by drugs and alcohol
—  helpless.
She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live, and with the inviolable, unquestioned certainty found in dementia. There were references dated and sealed with meticulous care which she would have enthusiastically opened with the mirth of one proclaiming a lifetime of honors and awards. But that singular event was freshly disturbed; its pores still drifted on the faint zephyr of remembrance.
— Darrell Drake, Everautumn
With the help of fanzines and close attention to the text of the game you can actually learn to speak Tsolyanu while wondering why the school still makes you learn French–it's not like you're going to use it.
— Mark Barrowcliffe, The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange
Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me to stop, till it’s time for lunch, till the skin on my fingers wears off layer after layer, because I like doing things for you, will do anything for you, just say the word...
— André Aciman
The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.
— John Jay Osborn Jr., The Paper Chase
Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words just so, plunking one here, then one there, gauging how to sound worthy of his regard.
— Timothy Schaffert, The Coffins of Little Hope
The one thing I do know is that Miki is obsessed with me, maybe in his own fucked up way he loves me. He won’t let me go and in the end that will kill him…- Shi
— Rochelle H. Ragnarok, The Boy with the Koi Tattoo
Luc blinked innocently. That little fuck. "I gave you a piece of opal and a Luxen to nom-nom on.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsession
Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEINGHAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even peopleBEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people
— Erich Fromm
how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was anotherappleto slice into pieces.Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it's noon,that meanswe're inconsolable.Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.These our bodies, possessed by light.Tell me we'll never get used to it.
— Richard Siken
Obsession
—  when thoughts are held captive and no longer your own.
Laura, this isn't love. Love lets you go on a trip without following you. Love can live without you for a week, knowing you'll come back.''No, it can't.' The afternoon shadows grew long and cold. In spite of the chill, a heat rose up inside her and flooded her face. 'That's how you know it's true love. When he can't live without you.'Karen shook her head. 'That's how you know it's obsession. Or something else.
— Natalie Standiford, The Boy on the Bridge
Reality isn’t the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think we’re engineered for it. It’s a pretty fine piece of engineering, the kind an engineer can respect. Drag in an obsession and reality can’t tolerate it. Something has to give; if reality goes, your fine piece of engineering is left with nothing to operate on. Nothing it was designed to operate on. So it operates badly. So kick the obsession out; start functioning the way you were designed to function.
— Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
Much better now. And Sunny—there's no such thing as 'too much' when it comes to us. Too much mutual interest, or awareness, or desire, or too much damn love—there's no such thing.""I love you beyond obsession," I murmur, terrified because it is too much."I love you to insanity," he replies, utterly solemn. "That's who I am, and that is who we are. I don't have any qualms about admitting it, and I don't have any regrets. Do you?
— Olivia Lynde, Summer's Desire
It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.
— Dick Francis, 10 lb Penalty
He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.
— Émile Zola, La Faute de l'abbé Mouret
Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old.
— Jeanette Winterson
You’re my wife, Suki. That gives me every right.
— Sofia Grey, Obsession
Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIM--that's bad
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
He could quite quickly become detached from the nuances of common human emotion. Particularly if he was engaged in some aspect of a scientific problem or research. His work excluded any consideration for the feelings of those around him. And he rarely excused himself or justified his behavior. It was as if he was compelled to focus all his energy on one subject and was unaware that others did not follow his obsession.
— Theresa Breslin, The Medici Seal
Ingo was a fever, and so far she hadn't found the antidote.
— Margaret Way, Black Ingo
A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.
— Alan Ryan, On Politics: A New History of Political Philosophy
I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.
— Scott Weiland, Not Dead & Not for Sale
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
— Mason Cooley
Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid’s life had been entirely guyless.
— Francine Pascal, Model Flirt
The teeth!—the teeth!—they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development.
— Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
— James Madison
Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.
— Louis L'Amour, The Daybreakers
You have no right to be silenced.
— James DeVita, The Silenced
What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?
— Keith Ablow, Murder Suicide
I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.
— Alvin A. Bullock, Running Water
It is also aimed at experienced human rights activists who are looking for a handy collection of facts to use in any confrontations online – or in real life.
— Christina Engela, The Pink Community - The Facts
To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from interfering with your use of that thing. As such the very act of the body occupying its standing room is to make a claim against others because only one body can occupy the space at a time.
— Daniel Alexander Brackins, Private Property, Law, and the State
Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.
— Daniel Alexander Brackins, Private Property, Law, and the State
Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.
— Malcolm X
If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?
— DaShanne Stokes
Whether vampires should have been declared ‘alive’ and full citizens of the United States of America was one of the big debates ranking right up there with gun rights and abortion. In a way all of them are about life and death—defining what life is, and what it isn’t, and how far we’ll go to protect, or take, it.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights
— Sunday Adelaja
I've never had any rights in this country and I'm happy to renounce any I'm supposed to have. That way they can't bother me.
— Dimitri Verhulst, De helaasheid der dingen
Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.
— Daniel Pennac
Indeed, if the Framers intended unenumerated rights to be protected without a bill of rights, how can we imagine that those rights were meant to be any less secure with a bill of rights.
— Roger Pilon
I have to have a degree of not doing a degree"!
— ― Mr. Ashfaq
The same touchy sense of personal honor that is at the root of Achilles' wrath still governs relations between man and man in modern Greece; Greek society still fosters in the individual a fierce sense of his privileges, no matter how small, of his rights, no matter how confined, of his personal worth, no matter how low. And to defend it, he will stop, like Achilles, at nothing.
— Bernard Knox, The Oldest Dead White European Males & Other Reflections on the Classics
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
You told me once that freedom was my right.” I held his gaze. “Maybe you should do something with it.
— Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order
The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.
— Anton Chekhov
My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong--it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.
— Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.
— Benjamin Franklin
That’s the worst part, that so many would not value their own unique abilities, not value themselves, much less respect those who have fought and died so that they could live free to make the choice to surrender that precious right of choice –long with their gift and individuality.”She gripped the blanket in a fist. “I often think that the y deserve everything they’re going to get. I only regret that those of us who value what we have will suffer the same fate. They’re the ones I fight for. The rest of them be damned.”Alex swallowed at the pain so clearly evident in her voice. “We have people like that in our world, too. People who say that freedom is no longer practical, that we must surrender it for a greater common good.”“Fear them,” she whispered. “They are the heart of evil. They tolerate tyranny, excuse it, compromise with it. In doing so they always bring savagery and death upon the rest of us.
— Terry Goodkind, The Law of Nines
So, take the idea of "rights" and drip some acid on it. Even the most adult of the Ancients knew: the source of a right is power, a right is a function of power. Take two trays of a weighing scale: put a gram on one, and on the other, put a ton. On one side is the "I", on the other is the "WE", the One State. Isn't it clear? Assuming that "I" has the same "rights" compared to the State is exactly the same thing as assuming that a gram can counterbalance a ton. Here is the distribution: a ton has rights, a gram has duties. And this is the natural path from insignificance to greatness: forget that you are a gram, and feel as though you are a millionth part of the ton...
— Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
Without the right to defend yourself--and the right to possesss the means to do it--all other supposed rights are so much hot air.
— James Carlos Blake
When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!
— Kenneth Eade, HOA Wire
By confessing Jesus Christ as Lord, we give to Him all the rights to our lives.
— Sunday Adelaja
...though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.
— Craig R. Key, A Sight Unseen
The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienabl e right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.
— Carl Friedrich Bahrdt, The Edict of Religion, a Comedy, and the Story and Diary of My Imprisonment
The man’s rights and the woman’s rights are the same size. They have the right to have their opinions and desires respected, to have a 50 percent say in decision making, to live free from verbal abuse and physical harm. Their children’s rights are somewhat smaller but substantial nonetheless; children can’t have an equal say in decisions because of their limited knowledge and experience, but they do have the right to live free from abuse and fear, to be treated with respect, and to have their voices heard on all issues that concern them.
— Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.
— Bob Marley
The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds, the effective exercise of a right springing not from the individual who possesses it, but from other men who consider themselves as being under a certain obligation towards him. Recognition of an obligation makes it effectual. An obligation which goes unrecognized by anybody loses none of the full force of its existence. A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much. It makes nonsense to say that men have, on the one hand, rights, and on the other hand, obligations. Such words only express differences in point of view. The actual relationship between the two is as between object and subject. A man, considered in isolation, only has duties, amongst which are certain duties towards himself. A man left alone in the universe would have no rights whatever, but he would have obligations.
— Simone Weil, The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
— Thomas Drummond
What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.
— Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
If you don't make a stand for something you'll never make a stand for nothing..
— Alcurtis Turner
Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.
— Ron Brackin
We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.
— Carl-John X. Veraja
Always Remember... Once You Give Up Your Rights, You Can Never Get Them Back. Once You Turn On That Police State, You Can Never Turn It Off.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.
— Joe Biden, Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our fathers freemen, are in question.
— John Eliot
The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow
If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.
— Émilie Du Châtelet, Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings
Treason starts the moment when people violate their own rights.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.-Aras
— Karen Traviss, City of Pearl
Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporter, a labor union or you? Who will protect and teach your children to seek truth? A textbook committee, an education bureaucrat, or you? Did a commission of wise men stop the Holocaust? Did a committee of Congress end Jim Crow? No. In each case, the work was done by individuals who would not abide convenient lies. They saw injustice and they called it out. They saw their nation wage war against a single group and they said “not in my name.” They didn’t wait for the conventions of society to catch up to God’s laws. They pushed. They pressed. And they were victorious.
— Glenn Beck
I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.
— Jay Woodman
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.(V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)
— John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
I think it is true to say only an inferior person has rights. When you hear a person talking about his rights, you may be sure he is trying to gain by dint of shouting something which he lacks ( or had and lost) by reason of some culpable deficiency in himself.
— Flann O'Brien
This wasn’t the Dark Ages, and she wasn’t living in a third world nation where women didn’t have any rights and were treated unequally.
— Missy Lyons, Alien Promise
Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.
— Flann O'Brien
I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Return to Stantasyland
Article 191. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.3. The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:(a) For respect of the rights or reputations of others;(b) For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals.
— International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men
— it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.
There is no such thing as "the right to enslave".A nation can do it , just as a man can become a criminal - but neither can do it by right. It doesn't matter in this context, whether a nation was enslaved by force (like soviet Russia), or by vote (like Nazi Germany).
— Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
— Alfred Tennyson
There will always be wars," Maggie told him."Yes," Reeve replied. "But there will also be brothers, sisters, comrades and lovers as well, and they are who we fight for. Our comrades--our brothers--beside us on the field; our wives and families at home. Wallace wishes for freedom. It is a gife given by God and should not be taken by men; it is the right of every man to be free and it is our duty to protect that right so that our children may know what it is to be free and not live under oppression.
— Hazel B. West, On a Foreign Field: A Story of Loyalty and Brotherhood
A right is not what someone gives you
—  it's what no one can take from you.
Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.
— John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work
You’ve got choices, like any other creature. You can stumble down that road, pretending you can’t help it. You can curl up and die of regret and sorrow for what you’ve done. Or you can get up and fight, even though the battle might be lost.-Finn
— Kersten Hamilton, Tyger Tyger
She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.
— Elizabeth Berg, Home Safe
If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.
— David Cottrell, Monday Morning Mentoring: Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder
life is really generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
No one can steal your joy from you, but you...take your power back!
— Donna Labermeier
Sometimes an adventure is a mundane thing. A trip to the shore with your best friend. Learning you can laugh in unearthly ways.
— Rose Christo, Unborn: Three Short Stories
Hermes bowed his head in thankfulness to the Great Dragon who had taught him so much, and begged to hear more concerning the ultimate of the human soul. So Poimandres resumed: "At death the material body of man is returned to the elements from which it came, and the invisible divine man ascends to the source from whence he came, namely the Eighth Sphere..."Then, being naked of all the accumulations of the seven Rings, the soul comes to the Eighth Sphere, namely, the ring of the fixed stars. Here, freed of all illusion, it dwells in the Light and sings praises to the Father in a voice which only the pure of spirit may understand. Behold, O Hermes, there is a great mystery in the Eighth Sphere, for the Milky Way is the seed-ground of souls, and from it they drop into the Rings, and to the Milky Way they return again from the wheels of Saturn. But some cannot climb the seven-runged ladder of the Rings. So they wander in darkness below and are swept into eternity with the illusion of sense and earthiness."The path to immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and await a new beginning. Those who are saved by the light of the mystery which I have revealed unto you, O Hermes, and which I now bid you to establish among men, shall return again to the Father who dwelleth in the White Light, and shall deliver themselves up to the Light and shall be absorbed into the Light, and in the Light they shall become Powers in God. This is the Way of Good and is revealed only to them that have wisdom.
— Thoth Hermes Trismegistus
Thank You!' is the most powerful vibration you can send out into the Universe.
— Donna Labermeier
Who can believe in illusion even if we all live the Illusion of Life?
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Who can say that he is not everything?
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
There's a 'me' in every 'you'.
— Sandra Chami Kassis
You can just be your self’s stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.
— Bilal Tanweer
Who can play without wanting to succeed even with a sentimentally gain?
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
No tiredness can destroy hope like death can, as the absolute fatigue of life.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Do not be to yourself more that God may be to you.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
We can never succeed in knowing our own self without holidays and anniversaries.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Heroes are the saints of every nation.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Being brave in front of faith does not mean to be humble before death.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
No one can be alone when he befriends with the forgotten stranger inside him.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Nothing can be more painful than the cry of the word which gave us the inspiration to dream of love.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
We are a being only through our Illusion of Life.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
We will never be more than we are meant to be!
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Carry yourself with a quiet demeanor. Let your actions be your lesson to the world to see. Let people remember you for your wisdom and your delight at helping others. Be fair to all man. Judge not another unless you are prepared to be judged. Remember the vow you spoke on the birth of your soul and your dedication of spreading wisdom to your fellow man.Be a person of Noble heart.Be a Warrior Of The Light!
— Levon Peter Poe
Over done forgotten gone now my troubles will move on.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always choose to learn from others.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Whoever and whatever you envision yourself to be, you be it! Your destiny is a matter of you overcoming your environment and deciding you shall become who you want to be. The first rule you need to know is FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION! Each day the whole world conspires to beat you, bend you, break you and mold you into a shape of its creation and turn you into another of its mass produced puppets. The world wants to take away your individuality, your uniqueness, with each breath you take. Well Fuck ALL THAT! Every day you make damn sure you wake up in the morning, give thanks to God for another day, get out of bed and say it loud like you proud to the world - “I am who I am, deal with it, Bitch!
— Levon Peter Poe
But that's precisely how stupidity flourishes; in bunches, in fast-growing weeds that choke delicately nurtured knowledge.
— Sam Sykes, Shy Knives
Events don’t make a person interesting. It’s who they are and what’s inside them that makes them interesting.
— Christy Reece, Too Far Gone
Don't be hasty.
— Treebeard
You cant hire body guards against punches of life but constant prayers can lessen the impact & pain of each punch
— Mwirigi LG
The greatest triumph is victory over all trials.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Anyaele Sam Chiyson's Law of Objectivity States that You must be aware of who you are and your ability to do all things right by yourself and have all things turn out well for you, without distortion through personal feelings, prejudices or interpretations in order to make your mark in a way that is free from any subjective preference.
— Anyaele Sam Chiyson, It Is Time to Get Very Rich
I don't like to sugarcoat, it can cause an addiction to B.S.
— Angel M.B. Chadwick
You must be a starter and a finisher, the slogan “press on” has solved a lot of problem.
— Godwin Elendu Ph.D
The most essential step in marketing your services is selecting an occupation you can throw yourself into wholeheartedly.
— Godwin Elendu Ph.D
Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future.
— T.A. Uner, The Leopard Apocalypse
I am not responsible for what another man thinks. I do claim responsibility for helping another man think
— Levon Peter Poe
Every thought creates a plan,every decision creates a way forward, every action brings forth tangible assets. Everything starts from the mind my friend.
— Euginia Herlihy
Dreamers and thinkers believe in innovative ideas and they become the greatest students of all time.
— Euginia Herlihy
God’s wisdom makes Christians different from other people.
— Sunday Adelaja
Within the whispers of love, I found my heart. Within a glimmer from a ray, I found my soul. Within both, I found myself.
— Raneem Kayyali
You see, my son, a city is all about how you look at it...We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.
— Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here Is Too Great
Coolness ebbs and flows.Whoever is cool today may not be cool today
— The Alien Cactus
Everyone of us has a high mountain to climb and a deep valley to level but the only thing makes us different to each other is the way we deal with these obstacles.
— Euginia Herlihy
You are all talking a bit too much, said Armando, who had cautioned them from the beginning to stay out of popular culture and in their own interior worlds.When you are caught up in the world that you did not design as support for your life and the life of earth and people, it is like being caught in someone else's dream or nightmare. Many people exist in their lives in this way. I say exist because it is not really living. It is akin to being suspended in a dream one is having at night, a dream over which one has no control. You are going here and there, seeing this and that person; you do not know or care about them usually, they are just there, on your interior screen. Humankind will not survive if we continue in this way, most of us living lives in which our own life is not the center.
— Alice Walker, The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart
If someone grabs you in the street, hit hard and fast, because you may not get a second chance.
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen
With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.
— Fazal Inayat-Khan
Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is the key to everything, because it is the force that keeps and maintains everything.
— Judas Iscariot The Flight of the Feathered Serpent
The clock moves on and hours pass too quickly
—  I was only a second in the tactful moments of life.
Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters.
— Brian Spellman
Let your words to be a cushion to those who are around you, especially to those who are in a vulnerable state.
— Euginia Herlihy
Stop confusing yourself and wasting your time doing everything you see or hear from other people. The core is to make time to find your niche, embrace it and run with it before your confusion create envy that will lead to resentment. Wake up! The whole situation undermines your your worth on this planet. Your divine calling and your divine purpose are both patiently waiting for you to come to senses.
— Euginia Herlihy
We need to strive for more than normality because normality brings lack of fruitfulness, lack of growth, lack of increase and lack of success.
— Euginia Herlihy
I've learned something peculiar in my life, every time rejection comes on my way; my break through shows up. Now I'm sort of enjoying rejection, so bring it on, I'm ready to celebrate my break through and I'm grateful to those who reject me.
— Euginia Herlihy
Learning is the chief goal to those who aim high in life.
— Euginia Herlihy
Love is a powerful device that builds the broken bridges.
— Euginia Herlihy
Teachable spirit makes you crave for more wisdom and knowledge.
— Euginia Herlihy
Those who have teachable spirit get wiser and wiser daily.
— Euginia Herlihy
Learning is a life time journey that opens flood gates of opportunities.
— Euginia Herlihy
He said slowly, “You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you’re trying to decide what to do.
— John Williams, Stoner
I am a learner, my desire is to be a good listener and to have a teachable spirit in my life time.
— Euginia Herlihy
You could feel hurt and rejected right now but you must know that both pain and rejection are not here to stay. They just passing by and they'll never take away the burning fire that resides in you called desire.
— Euginia Herlihy
Spirit of excellence can take you to the place of favor.
— Euginia Herlihy
Authenticity is the back bone of every dream and the source of open doors.
— Euginia Herlihy
Dreamers do not believe in power, they believe in imagination the source of creativity.
— Euginia Herlihy
Dream chasers are full of strength, are full of desire, are passionate and they cling unto their dreams until they produce life.
— Euginia Herlihy
You don't need anyone's approval when it comes to your dream because the dream giver [God]is already approved it that moment He chose you to carry it.The only thing you can do is to remember that you are in the driving seat and you must keep driving until you reach your destination.
— Euginia Herlihy
The dreams we dream today will be the light to the generation to come.
— Euginia Herlihy
Knowledge and wisdom are both the signs of hunger and thirst of creativity.
— Euginia Herlihy
It's time to know who you are and why you are on this planet. It's time to grow up and know what God has invested in you, start to embrace it and use it before the world devour you alive.
— Euginia Herlihy
The most important thing to do when writing a book is to finish it.
— Suzanna Reeves
Learning and skill are things to be proud of
—  they are the stars that light the sky of one’s lifetime.
Each day is a new opportunity to make ourselves better. Don't wait for things to change, become the change.
— Karen S. Shelton
Poverty is a condition that resides in the heart . . . not in the wallet.
— Jo Ann V. Glim, Begotten with Love: Every Family Has Its Story
live a death, die a death
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
Uproot the spirit of reluctancy out of your life and invest the spirit of stickability in this year of 2014.
— Euginia Herlihy
Acknowledge what i mean, and not what say
— Matthew Kadow
God is already given you the power to crush down the red & white tape says you can't proceed beyond certain places. He's given you the keys to open all the door were been slammed on your face
—  now is the time to take your very first step towards your dreams and goals.
God is the captain of our lives, sometimes He diverts our plans and our ideas, let Him do so because he will never let us do something daft.
— Euginia Herlihy
She sat for a few minutes in the company of her bitter regrets...
— Wanda E. Brunstetter, The Quilter's Daughter
Keep dreaming because your dream will be the message that brings change to the others.
— Euginia Herlihy
Dreamers strive to live life to the fullest abilities and they fight for their dreams.
— Euginia Herlihy, Take a Step Right Now Towards Your Dreams by Euginia