He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

Susan Sontag

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Sir Winston Churchill

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Gene Brown

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Henry David Thoreau

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Ambrose Bierce

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

E. Stanley Jones

I'm so lucky that I have a great relationship.

Julianne Hough

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Ovid

Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.

Eric Chaisson

Once in a restaurant I made a toast to my wife, To the best woman a man ever had. The waiter joined me.

Rodney Dangerfield

Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

John Major