It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

Ernest Hemingway

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

C.S. Lewis

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage

Elizabeth Taylor

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Boethius

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Rain rain go away, come again another day

Rosen Topuzov

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

William Howard Taft

Gradually the mist had lifted, and the sun burst forth, a ball of fire radiating the sky with unnaturally incandescent hues. Coral was reminded of the strident brushwork and wild colours of the Fauvist paintings that filled her mother's gallery, which Coral had always loved. The scene was now set for the show to begin: the drama in which the broad, breath-taking landscapes of Africa were the stage and the animals the actors.

Hannah Fielding

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

Ernest Renan

How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

Proverb

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

H. Ross Perot

Via?a nu e suport pentru art?. Invers stau lucrurile.

Stephen King