Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Gravity and acceleration are equivalent.

Albert Einstein

....but I use the word (devotion) in a greater latitude so as to comprehend under it faith, hope, love, fear, trust, humility, submission, honour, reverence, adoration, thanksgiving in a word all that duty which we owe to God.

John Norris

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Thomas Alva Edison

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

Dodie Smith

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Milan Kundera

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Bertrand Russell

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

C. T. Studd

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

Whittaker Chambers

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

Jeff Bridges

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

Louis C. K.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

Kahlil Gibran