You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --
Victor Hugo
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Mary Oliver
So strong was the preconception of absolute space and time in the scientific mentality of those days, that Lorentz did not realize the grand transcendence of what he had discovered, and contented himself with remodeling the edifice of Physics -- instead of rebuilding it with a new foundation.
Felix Alba-Juez
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
James Wolcott
Power tires only those who do not have it.
Giulio Andreotti
Remember, when the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong.
K. O'Hara
I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
Adam Brody
I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.
Tori Amos
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Ogden Nash
Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?
Charles L. Allen
In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.
Koichi Tanaka
To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.
Aldrich Ames
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
Paul Klee
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
Hillary Clinton
Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.
Cassandra Clare
Honor the ocean of love.
George De Benneville
You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.
Lucy Liu
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it
George Bernard Shaw
My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.
Bobby Darin
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of god health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.
Harry J. Johnson
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.
Richard Gere
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
Publilius Syrus
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
Marilyn Monroe
Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund.
Carol Evertt
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Sai Baba
So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.
Monica Lewinsky
Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.
Travis Berketa
I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.
Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.
Michael Scheuer
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas William Jerrold, A Land
Earlier today I was eating a nugget.
Angello Wellson-Noble
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
William Shakespeare
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