How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

Tomas Transtromer

I used to be a bartender at the Betty Ford Clinic.

Steven Wright

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Ernest Renan

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Alexander John Ellis

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Harrison Salisbury

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Robert Browning

I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as you.

George Bernard Shaw

God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.

David Livingstone

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

Chuck Palahniuk

From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you going to be James Bond? You should have been, you could have been, you may have been. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It was like unfinished business in my life. I couldn't say no to it this time around.

Pierce Brosnan

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Katherine Mansfield

It is one of those stories that you just want to keep going and going - even after the last page has been reached. Kristie Leigh Maguire

Vicki M. Taylor