Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Dorothy Thompson

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

William Wordsworth

When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors

William Shakespeare

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

George Bernard Shaw

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

Victor Hugo

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

Iain Duncan Smith

When I'm in the gym, I'm in the gym, and that is my focus. But when I'm not in the gym, I'm enjoying being a mom and taking care of those responsibilities .. They really do provide me with the balance that I need to be a more complete athlete.

Melanie Roach

Pain is temporary, love is forever, don't make it the other way around.

Robert Tew

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

Joanne Harris

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri

Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.

Suze Orman

Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Golda Meir