Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

Eric Burdon

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Marilyn Monroe

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

William J. Clinton

Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

Virgil

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

Aldrich Ames

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Desiderius Erasmus

The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.

Jennifer Beals

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

Richard Bach with this book does two things. He gives me Flight. He makes me Young. For both I am deeply grateful.

Ray Bradbury

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

Desmond Morris