Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.

Speak the truth and shame the devil.

Proverb

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

Alasdair Gray

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

Barbara Boxer

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

John Naisbitt

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Elizabeth Bibesco

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Alice Walker

One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.

Bernard Devoto

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual and the soul of a people.

Bertrand Russell

The principal part of faith is patience.

George MacDonald

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

John Burroughs

The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demian...is unforgettable. With uncanny accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of the times and called forth grateful rapture from a whole youthful generation who believed that an interpreter of their innermost life had risen from their own midst.

Thomas Mann, From the Introducti