Die Vernunft ist, wenn sie allein waltet, eine einengende Kraft; und unbewacht ist die Leidenschaft eine Flamme, die bis zur Selbstzerstörung brennt.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Willa Cather

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Andrea Dworkin

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Wangari Maathai

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

Rebecca Hall

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

Joseph Force Crater

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Dickens

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

Jack Nicholson

I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.

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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

Frederick Douglass