There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Albert Einstein

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Malcolm Bradbury

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Jean Paul

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

Mia Wasikowska

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Paul Boese

With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.

Jordin Sparks

...[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they had the supreme quality of transience, which puts the keenest edge on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach.

Jan Struther

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

Alan Hollinghurst

Power is not alluring to pure minds

Thomas Jefferson

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

Victor Hugo

And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. (Judges 9:15)

Bible

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Aristotle