I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Paracelsus

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Gloria Steinem

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

Minna Antrim

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

King Hussein I

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

J.K. Rowling

They grew in beauty side by side, They filled one home with glee: Their graves are severed far and wide By mount and stream and sea.

Felicia Hemans

Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.

Orson Scott Card

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

Rachel Bilson

Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom --the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in at City Hall.

Jane Kramer

If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

Oscar Wilde

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

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