What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

Alexandre Dumas

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

John Milton

O unbelievers, I serve not what you serve and you are not serving what I serve, nor am I serving what you have served, neither are you serving what I serve. To you your religion, and to me my religion!

Qur'an

...He wanted to hear her concerns and alleviate them, he wanted to hold her and kiss her and convince her that he would find a way to make their relationship work, no matter how hard that might be. He wanted to to make her hear his words: that he couldn't imagine a lofe without her,that his feelings for her were real. But most of all, he wanted to reassure himself that she felt the same way about him.

Nicholas Sparks

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.

George Bernard Shaw

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

Paul Harvey

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Etty Hillesum

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nerd love. It's a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.

Cassandra Clare

Science is the future of mankind.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji