Quotes of David Riesman

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The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

- David Riesman

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“ Don't worry when people only bring up your past. It's only because your present and future looks brighter and better than theirs ”

- Kimberking

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys. ”

- Hermann J. Steinherr

“ Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. ”

- Nicholas Sparks

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ She believed she could so she did. ”

- Unknown

“ A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful. ”

- robert m drake

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ Remember when your heart is empty, don’t fill it with lies and deception. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ”

- Mae West

“ At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live. ”

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib