Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Alfred Marshall

Lo sguardo delle donne assomiglia a certi congegni tranquilli in apparenza ma formidabili.Vi si passa vicino tutti i giorni pacificamente e impunemente, senza dubitare di nulla. Viene il momento in cui ci si dimentica anche che quella cosa è l? . Si va, si viene, si sogna, si parla, si ride. A un tratto ci si sente presi! E' finita. Il congegno vi ha preso, lo sguardo vi ha catturato.Vi ha preso, non importa dove, né come, per una parte qualsiasi del vostro pensiero, per una distrazione. Un concatenamento di forze misteriose si impadronisce di voi. Vi dibattete invano. Non ci sono più soccorsi umani possibili. Cadete di ingranaggio in ingranaggio, di angoscia in angoscia, di tortura in tortura, voi, il vostro spirito, le vostre fortune, il vostro avvenire, l'anima vostra; e, a seconda che siate in potere di una creatura cattiva o di un nobile cuore, non uscirete da quella spaventosa macchina che sfigurato dalla vergogna o trasfigurato dalla passione.

Victor Hugo

The only pushup you won't be able to do is the one you never do.

Gwen Ro

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Franklin P. Adams

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

Terry Pratchett

His courage foes, his friends his truth proclaim.

John Dryden

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Brian Eno

My beloved has arrived, but rather than greeting him, All I can do is bite the corner of my apron with a blank expression- What an awkward woman am I. My heart has longed for him as hugely and openly as a full moonBut instead I narrow my eyes, and my glance to him Is sharp and narrow as the crescent moon. But then, I'm not the only one who behaves this way. My mother and my mother's mother were as silly and stumbling as I am when they were girls...Still, the love from my heart is overflowing, As bright and crimson as the heated metal in a blacksmith's forge.

Kim Dong Hwa

The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

George Orwell

This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Princess of Wales Diana

There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Victor Hugo