It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

Jodi Picoult

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The true measure of a real man is that he has the ability to admit when he is wrong, apologize, and make amends to those he wronged

Richard Ashworth

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Sir Winston Churchill

Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean:And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla K

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Yukio Mishima

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

Marlo Thomas

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.

Drew Barrymore

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Robert Bresson

From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.

John Prescott