The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Michelangelo

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

Miguel de Cervantes

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Mencari, itulah titah ilmu pada pengabdinya.

E.S. Ito

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

William Ralph Inge

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,' I said, sighing.'Is it?' said Veronica, looking surprised. 'Universally acknowledged? Surely that presupposes life similar to human societies beyond this planet, and besides--''No, no, it's a quote from ... Never mind,' I said.

Michelle Cooper

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

Janet Malcolm

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

John Johnson

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: There is no indispensable man.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Janet Fitch