We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

Rebecca West

The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

Susan Wittig Albert

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

George Farquhar

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

Drew Carey

[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.

Orson Scott Card

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

Brandon Mull

This is not about hating homosexuals. I don't. I love homosexuals.

Michele Bachmann

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

Marcel Proust

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

William Shakespeare

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

Jerry Falwell

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke