Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb

Our whole society is instantaneous.

Bryan Cranston

ThereÂ’s a land where the mountains are nameless,

Robert William Service, The Spel

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

Gene Tierney

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock.

Aldous Huxley

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Albert Einstein

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say 'oral method' to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say 'sign language' to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Alexander Graham Bell

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

Jo Brand

None but a mule denies his family.

Arabic Proverb

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.

Morris Bender

Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.

Terry Pratchett

I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives.

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of