The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?
John Osborne
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.
Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.
Leo Tolstoy
If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.
Benjamin Franklin
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
Elvis Presley
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
Henry David Thoreau
If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.
Olivia Munn
I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I'm sure I'd love it, because the sentences would be tuned up like music.
Karen Russell
The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.
Miley Cyrus
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle
I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.
Rupert Grint
Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
Fareed Zakaria
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde
It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. We should all smile more often.
Steve Maraboli
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov
Would it hurt to die?
J.K. Rowling
I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
Francois Hollande
Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life...
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature.
C.S. Lewis
Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
Paulo Coelho
You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.
John Mellencamp
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
William Butler Yeats
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
Abraham Lincoln
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
Vicente Aleixandre
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
Sam Donaldson
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Washington Irving
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
Daniel J. Evans
You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.
Christopher Hitchens
At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.
Jonathan Kozol
Cosmic Ordering is absent in body but present in spirit.
Stephen Richards
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
Rand Paul
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