It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

Earl Blumenauer

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Henry Ward Beecher

Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart

Cassandra Clare

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

George Eliot

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life

Jane Austen

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

Jeremy Jackson

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

I don't own a car.

Shepard Smith

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

Gary Bauer

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

Pierre de Coubertin

World is suddener than we fancy it.

Emma Donoghue

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

E. M. Forster