I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

Hannah Arendt

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Stephen Hawking

Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...

Cassandra Clare

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

Harold Ruopp

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare

He looked up and I realised how close we were, both of us leaning in together. I blinked a few times, suddenly light-headed, but not like before when I'd passed out. Being so close to the smooth dark skin of his face, getting lost in the shifting shades of his green eyes, it felt like my insides were fluttering and melting.

Heather Anastasiu

Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.

Steve Maraboli

Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

William Shakespeare

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Meir Kahane

War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Sir Edmund Gosse

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

Marilyn Monroe

Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.

Ralph Ransom