Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

I think she just asked if she could touch my mango.

Cassandra Clare

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Jacob Bronowski

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.

John Zorn

What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.

Andy Warhol

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Barbara Johnson

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.

W. Somerset Maugham

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

Christopher Hitchens

Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up at Nash's feet and dropped from the saddle. The two brothers threw their arms around each other and embraced hard.Shortly thereafter he stepped into the healing rooms and leaned in the doorway, looking across at her quietly. Brocker's son with the gentle gray eyes.She abandoned all pretense of decorum and ran at him.

Kristin Cashore

So his life has flowed From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.

Thomas Noon Talfourd

In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.

Amanda Howells

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Ted Koppel

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Jane Addams