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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. ...
by Erica Jong

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 PHOTO

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong PHOTO

The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

 

Love is serene and calm
- 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

Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong

Solitude is considered un-American.
- 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

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

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong

Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- 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

The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong

We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- 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

Don't complain, don't whine, and don't gossip.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

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

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

How does so much gossip fit in such small minds?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell

Gossip and complaint are the underbelly of low conversation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip.
- Dave Barry

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

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

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)

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

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

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

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain

Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

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

When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie

You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

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


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