I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

Jodi Picoult

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Oscar Wilde

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

George Orwell

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

Jessica Ennis

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Ed Foreman

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Ovid

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

John Keats

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

Frantz Fanon

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Christopher Morley

There was no question about it- the girl in the photograph was staggeringly beautiful. She was Miss Canal Zone, a runner-up in the Miss Universe Contest -- and in fact far more beautiful than the winner of the contests. Her beauty had frightened the judges.

Kurt Vonnegut

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Allanah Myles

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love-then make that day count!

Steve Maraboli