But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why should he say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable. How were people, at that rate, to be understood?

No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.

Staness Jonekos

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

Eben Alexander

It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.

Bernard Leach

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

David Herbert Lawrence

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Donna Tartt

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

Daniel Day-Lewis

People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.

Sanaya Roman

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

Mark Hatfield

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

Will Rogers, March 1, 1931

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Immanuel Kant

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Oscar Wilde

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Niccolo Machiavelli