In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men.

We are raised to believe (on the surface, at least) that us humans only have so much love to give, and that it comes in a standard round unit: one. After all, we associate love with the heart, and, well, you've either got a whole heart, or you're dead, period. You can't, common wisdom goes, just run around dividing that one heart up freely; to claim to do so means that you're either a fool, or you're dividing up something that is dead.

Anthony Ravenscroft

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends. Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much, who enters life with the expectation of finding many

Samuel Johnson

I love my songs, let's not get crazy here.

Ronnie Spector

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Dave Barry

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Jackie Robinson, I Never Had It

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Cecil Frank Powell

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Ray Bradbury

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Joel Osteen

The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.

William Osler

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Epictetus

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

Mark Twain

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Daniel Craig