The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269).

Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row.

Florence King

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

Iain Banks

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise.

Joseph Addison

The years that are gone seem like dreams -if one might go on sleeping and dreaming- but to wake up and find -oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all ones life.

Kate Chopin

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

J.K. Rowling

Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.

Terry Semel

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Horace Mann

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

Felix Bloch

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

Malcolm X

Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.

William Shakespeare

The word

Anthony Storr, Churchill

Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.

Ken Salazar