happiness

"Are we happy that 99% of all new income is going to the top 1%? Are we happy that one family in this country owns more than the bottom 130 million people?"

"Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us."

"Paranoiac-critical activity is an organizing and productive force of objective chance. Paranoiac-critical activity no longer considers surrealist phenomena and images by themselves but, on the contrar…"

"We fall short when we ascribe all the modes of happiness to walking in paths of rectitude. There are joys which only tramps and thieves know."

"Sir, I beseech you for all the love that hath been between us, and for the love of God, let me have justice and right. Take of me some pity and compassion, for I am a poor woman, and a stranger, born …"

"Whoever sows good shall harvest happiness, and whoever sows evil shall harvest regret."

"Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness – when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven’t had time to know how much better it ought to be."

"Happiness is a new idea in Europe."

"I feel very happy that Bush is our president. One way that you can tell we have a good president, is by how much the French dislike him. The more the French hate him, the better he must be. And they h…"

"These, then, are our common hopes that unite us -- that as the shackles of prejudice and intolerance fall from our own limbs we can together strive to identify and remove the impediments to human deve…"

"Jews can't eat pork - surely anal delights are way higher up on the list of taboos."

"No real joy can reach us from the rational mechanism of capitalist exploitation. Joy does not have fixed rules to catalogue it."

"“Sometimes it takes a decision, an act of the will, a step of faith, to be joyful—and then God can plant something real and abiding in our hearts."

"He has everything, he cannot sleep, he gives nice gifts, he is not happy, but he would not trade, even for happiness, what he is...."

"There are pigs that can manipulate joysticks, yet you morons can't even send me an intelligible email."

"I haven't heard them and probably never shall because I no longer go to the places where one could hear them, for I have got into my head that I should maintain a certain presence and air for dignity.…"

"Bel canto does not mean beautiful singing alone. It is, rather, the technique demanded by the composers of this style — Donizetti, Rossini, and Bellini. It is the same attitudes and demands of Mozart …"

"Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong, welcome! Your great country makes our Happy Meals possible!"

"All those to whom I looked up, were of opinion that the pleasure of sympathy with human beings, and the feelings which made the good of others, and especially of mankind on a large scale, the object o…"

"And perhaps there is no advice to give a writer more important than this: — Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure."