Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

George Eliot

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.

Ernest Hemingway

I reach out to touch his cheek and he catches my hand and presses it against his lips.

Suzanne Collins

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

Thomas Jefferson

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Napoleon

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Marianne Moore

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Barbara de Angelis

You had no right to be born for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

Charlotte Bronte

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

French. Feel. Finger. Fuck.

John Green

The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Eric Hoffer