The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...
Stephen King
Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
Edward Everett
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
Rosie O'Donnell
Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country.
Nick Lampson
It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough.
Scott O'Grady
If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.
Cassandra Clare
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Frank O'Hara
I do engineering, not religion.
Daniel J. Bernstein
Remember, when the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong.
K. O'Hara
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
Austin O'Malley
...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
Plato
I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.
Lance Bass
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Desmond Tutu
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
C.S. Lewis
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
Hal Holbrook
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.
David Dinkins
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
David Eagleman
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.
Chris Messina
I brought you some coffee. he held out the cup but she waved it away.I hate that stuff. It tastes like feet.At that he smiled. How would you know what feet taste like?I just know.-Luke and Clary, pg.209-
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.
Thomas Jefferson
But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.
Donna Shalala
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.
Robert Morgan
And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (How to Write with Style. Essay, 1985)
Kurt Vonnegut
In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
Gijs de Vries
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.
Sarah McLachlan
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.
Christopher Hitchens
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