"It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions." ― Norman Mailer Topic(s): Hope More From Norman Mailer "There are four stages in a marriage. First there’s the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce." "I don’t think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for." "Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most." More In Hope "One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."― Antonio Porchia "I hope to die in the saddle seat."― Albert Ellis "As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking."― Thomas Sowell