The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Susan Gerhart

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

Lord Halifax

The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom.

Charles Dickens

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

Dietrich FischerDieskau

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

Anne Perry

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

Will Oldham

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Petrarch

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

George Brett

The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

Stephen King

Lies do not lie, truth do, In the times of any act lies lie hidden behind.

Santosh Kalwar

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Daniel C. Dennett