Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Matthew had called her harmless. Harmless. And being with him made Frankie feel squashed into a box - a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or as powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.Frankie wanted to be a force.

E. Lockhart

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Michael Crichton

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Friends are proved by adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.

James J. Gibson

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

Leighton Meester

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

Robin Quivers

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Heraclitus

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

Charles Simmons

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

Theodore Bikel