Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
Related topics: Cynical
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong 
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
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Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes,
I want to go home and screw; After the first twenty minutes,
I never want to screw again as long as I live
- Erica Jong
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Don't complain, don't whine, and don't gossip.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
I choose to be caring, compassionate and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gossip and complaint are the underbelly of low conversation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How does so much gossip fit in such small minds?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip.
- Dave Barry
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.
- the Woody Allen movie Manhattan (1979)
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor;
it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
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