They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty - even for a moment - it is enough.

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.

Sir Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Sir Winston Churchill

If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes.

Agatha Christie

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

Groucho Marx

Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;Which therein works a miracle in nature,Making them lightest that wear most of it:So are those crisped snaky golden locksWhich make such wanton gambols with the wind,Upon supposed fairness, often knownTo be the dowry of a second head,The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.Thus ornament is but the guiled shoreTo a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarfVeiling an Indian beauty; in a word,The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest.

William Shakespeare

Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.

Isaac Yeffet

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Victor Hugo

It means, said Brother Jeremiah, The descent into Hell is easy.

Cassandra Clare

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

Gail Simmons

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Anna Magnani