If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

Orson Scott Card

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Charles Dickens

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Izaak Walton

If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.

Edward Gardner

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

William E. Rothschild

In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class;and in ordinary life, despite the high-falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beet-root sugar, and potato spirits.

Karl Marx

At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.

Anne Bronte

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Benjamin J. Montalbano

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

Danny Boyle

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Randolph Silliman Bourne, Youth

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. 
 Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

Ellie Goulding