He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

Stephen King

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

Oscar Wilde

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

George Eliot

Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.

Robert G. Ingersoll

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Thomas Fuller

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

Jared Diamond

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Aristotle

Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

Frederick William Robertson

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.

Derek Jeter

The city will gain beauty worthy of its name and to you it will be useful by its revenues, and the eternal fame of its aggrandizement.

Leonardo da Vinci

i don't know. i don't care. all i know is when you pay for something that's supposed to give you a cup of coffee, you deserve to get your fucking cup of coffee.

Jodi Picoult