The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Jeff Bridges

A fisherman may measure his catch by the size, but when is a man big enough to keep?

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They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Benjamin Franklin

“If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.”

C.S. Lewis

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

Sienna Miller

My whole life has been decided by fate.

Sharon Tate

What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

Albert Camus

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.

Margaret Fuller

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

Virgil Thomson

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

Joseph Addison

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Red Auerbach