Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

John Webster

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Samuel Butler

If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.

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Clever people study in order to know more. Undeserving people study in order to be more known.

Leo Tolstoy

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Miguel de Cervantes

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

Mike Krzyzewski

But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.

Marilynne Robinson

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

William Blackstone

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Horace

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.

Madeleine Albright

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Richard Russo