Envy is the only name she could find for the monstrous thing she faced, but it was much worse than envy: it was the profound hatred of life, of success and of all human values, felt by a certain kind of mediocrity...the kind who feels pleasure on hearing about a stranger's misfortune. It was hatred of the good for being the good...hatred of ability, of beauty, of honesty, of earnestness, of achievement and, above all, of human joy.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

William Blake

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

Emeril Lagasse

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C.S. Lewis

I insist, that if there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.

Abraham Lincoln

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

Source Unknown

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Saint Jerome

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Arlo Guthrie

Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Ambrose Bierce

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Proverb

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

Marian Keyes