They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

If young love is just a game then i must have missed the kickoff

Blink 182

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

Mary Baker Eddy

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Joyce Carol Oates

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Jessamyn West

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Miguel de Cervantes

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

Madeleine Albright

Beauty is harsh.

Cassandra Clare

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Les Brown

I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.

Katy Perry

No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Fran Lebowitz