Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.

This life's dim windows of the soulDistorts the heavens from pole to poleAnd leads you to believe a lieWhen you see with, not through, the eye.

William Blake, The Everlasting G

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

James D'arcy

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

JeanLuc Godard

An executive is a man who decides; sometimes he decides right, but always he decides.

John H. Patterson

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

Anne Perry

Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes.

Cheri K. Erdman

We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.

Michael Chertoff

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Jonathan Sacks

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

Ernie Harwell

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

John Boyne

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

Jim Carrey

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche