I accept reality and dare not question it.

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

Julian Barnes

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.

Gustave Flaubert

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

Melissa Bean

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

Criss Jami

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

Walter Russell

This is why we call people exes, I guess -- because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. It's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. It's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. The X is a diagram of two paths.

John Green

Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

John Locke

What, oh, what is the use of the war? Why can

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Gir

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Michael J. Fox

Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the wink of an eye. Life was a village fair that only lasted for a single day. As the carriage rattled along, rocking her like a babe in arms, Mary felt very old and wise. She found that she didn't mind being taken back to the castle, to a caring captivity that was filled with comforts and kindness. And she also found that she couldn't keep her eyes open.

Margaret George

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

William Hazlitt

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

Terry Pratchett