Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

I love you Clary. More then I ever-- God. More than i probably should. You know that, don't you?

Cassandra Clare

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dave Del Dotto

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him

Samuel Johnson

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Joseph Addison

Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour--landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one's hair! Shot out at the feet of God entirely naked! Tumbling head over heels in the asphodel meadows like brown paper parcels pitched down a shoot in the post office! With one's hair flying back like the tail of a race-horse. Yes, that seems to express the rapidity of life, the perpetual waste and repair; all so casual, all so haphazard...But after life. The slow pulling down of thick green stalks so that the cup of the flower, as it turns over, deluges one with purple and red light. Why, after all, should one not be born there as one is born here, helpless, speechless, unable to focus one's eyesight, groping at the roots of the grass, at the toes of the Giants?

Virginia Woolf

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Nate Silver

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

Muhammad Ali

What you can lose is what you really don't need in your life from the first place.

Hiroko Sakai

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

Aleister Crowley

Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or

Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas (1

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld