It's hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Henry David Thoreau

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

William Shakespeare

The fog is rising.

Emily Dickinson

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Dorothy Day

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

Ronald Wright

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Dave Parnas

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Sydney Smith

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

Jean M. Auel

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.

Charles Baudelaire

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.

Lewis Black

Really, Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy... Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that dis-empowers them or one that can literally save their lives....gone through many different phases of Destines and that's what made me to pen down... hope it won't screw-up me again....Something beyond love...

Atul Purohit

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

Christiaan Barnard