Cruel, but composed and bland,Dumb, inscrutable and grand,So Tiberius might have sat,Had Tiberius been a cat.

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise.

Joseph Addison

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Walter Benjamin

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Paul Muldoon

To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be calm, be brave, it'll be okay.

Guster

I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak.

Murray Bartlett

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Ray Stannard Baker

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce

Terry Pratchett

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

Dean Koontz

This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

Irving Langmuir

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

Peter Mullan

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

Kedar Joshi