Who the hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Virginia Woolf

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Eric Hoffer

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

Mike Huckabee

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Alan Rickman

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Jane Austen

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

Sheryl Sandberg

In the dark womb where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.

John Masefield

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Margaret Walker

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

Vernon L. Smith

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

H. L. Mencken

William James used to preach the will-to-believe. For my part, I should wish to preach the will-to-doubt. None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error.

Bertrand Russell