La La Anthony Quotes

[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.

There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.

Sleep always eluded the pursuer.

I am inspired by those who dedicate their lives to bringing about positive social change throughout the world.

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .

We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.

It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.

I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.

I have always said that your work stays with you for a long time, and I try to get involved in projects where I truly believe if I had to do them again, I would the same way.

Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.

What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it's not Latin music.

I'm not a traditional sonero, at least not in the way they want me to be, I'm an interpreter, and I reach people in a different level.

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it.

Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!