We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Herodotus

Ir j?b?t t?dai vietai, kur? tu atn?c r?pju pilns un p?kš?i - sirds ies?pas no skaistuma...

Imants Ziedonis

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

John Morley

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

Howard Nemerov

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

Ramakrishna

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

Tom Berenger

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Freya Stark

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

Source Unknown

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

Tom Hardy

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

Ernest Hemingway

A strange lady giving an address in Zurich wrote him [Shaw] a proposal, thus: `You have the greatest brain in the world, and I have the most beautiful body; so we ought to produce the most perfect child.' Shaw asked: `What if the child inherits my body and your brains?'

George Bernard Shaw

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

Richard Francis Burton