If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Richard Bach

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George Eliot

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
George Eliot

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Joseph Campbell

Above anything else, I hate to lose.
Jackie Robinson

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
J. D. Salinger

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
Elvis Presley

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.
Leo Durocher

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
Ivan Illich

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.
Ayrton Senna

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
e. e. cummings

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
James A. Baldwin

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James A. Baldwin

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
Frank Sinatra