Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

Hugh Laurie

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Madame de Stael

The bird let loose in Eastern skies,Returning fondly home,Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor fliesWhere idle warblers roam;But high she shoots through air and light,Above all low delay,Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,Nor shadow dims her way.

Thomas Moore, Oh That I had Wing

If things are natural, they're easy. If they're unnatural they're difficult. I have never met a man who found it difficult to marry, but I have never found a man who found it easy to divorce either.

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Hugh Walpole

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

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A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

Nicole Scherzinger

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.

Charles Francis Richter

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

Phyllis Bottome

She alone spoke the truth; to her alone could he speak it. That was the source of her everlasting attraction for him, perhaps; she was a person to whom one could say what came into one's head.

Virginia Woolf

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

William Sutton