There was a large sting near his upper lip. I touched it lightly. Does it hurt?My gaze moved from his lips up to his eyes. He was looking at me in a way that made me blush.Yes, he responded quietly.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Desmond Tutu

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

John Steinbeck

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

Christopher Walken

Yet, as great joy, especially after a sudden change and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue...http://www.literaturepage.com/read/tom-jones-914.html

Henry Fielding, The History of T

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

Victor Hugo

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Ambrose Bierce

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Spike Milligan

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Franz Liszt

I shall try to persuade first the Rulers and soldiers, and then the rest of the community, that the upbringing and education we have given them was all something that happened to them only in a dream. In reality they were fashioned and reared, and their arms and equipment manufactured, in the depths of the earth, and Earth herself, their mother, brought them up, when they were complete, into the light of day; so now they must think of the land in which they live as their mother and protect her if she is attacked, while their fellow citizens they must regard as brothers born of the same mother earth. That is the story. Do you know of any way of making them believe it? Not in the first generation, he said, but you might succeed with the second, and later generations.

Plato

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Abraham Lincoln

A good test of a man's religion is its vitality.

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So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible

Mildred D. Taylor