The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.

Paulo Coelho

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Samuel Fessenden

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Paul De Man

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Jill Churchill

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Doug Coupland

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

Ezra Pound

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Patrick Buchanan

Persecution is precious because it reveal whether a person lives with real faith.

Leo Tolstoy

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Tacitus

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

Bertrand Russell

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

Maya Angelou