Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

William Hazlitt

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

Neil Gaiman

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

Geoffrey Hickson

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Philip Larkin

In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.

Alexandra Patsavas

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

Jodi Picoult

Comfort is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being comfortable.

Swami Vivekananda

Peace is our passion

Thomas Jefferson

I feeland I have reason to believethat we could come to mean something to each other.

Colleen Houck

The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.

Rowan D. Williams

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

Saint John of the Cross

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer