Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

Peggy Noonan

Solitude begets whimsies.

Mary Wortley Montagu

You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

Franz Grillparzer

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.(translated 1951)

Emile Durkheim, Suicide, bk. 2,

The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.

Jodi Picoult

Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary

Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.

Phillip E. Johnson

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Gilbert White

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers

John Green

Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

Henry Jacobsen

Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.

Mae West