Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

Margaret Mitchell

Every tragedy contains the seeds of triumph.

Scott Sorrell

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

Darren Shan

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell

Just once in my life a man tried to embrace me. It was horrible! He had big boots, a heavy belt, huge gloves. Faugh! Oh, let's not talk about men.

Renee Vivien

Men want to make women happy.

Jerry Seinfeld

There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.

Nikki Haley

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

Tom Hopkins

A man is not good or bad for one action.

Thomas Fuller