I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies

Mark Twain

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

Alice Meynell

Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

John Green

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Ansel Adams

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Oscar Wilde

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

Betty Bender

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

Steve Wozniak

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I like to go out if there's a party or go to the movies, but I just like hanging out with my buddies and having a good time.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Deriving truth from joy may be far more easier than generating joy from the truth.

Toba Beta

Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.

Tomas Luis de Victoria