When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Rainer Maria Rilke

When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.

Rosamund Lupton

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Winston Churchill

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

Mark Zuckerberg

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Hugo

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Joan Didion

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it.

American Indian Proverb, Arapaho

Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.

Terry Pratchett

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

George Borrow

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

Ginnifer Goodwin