Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

George Byron

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

Harry Browne

Hell is other people.

JeanPaul Sartre

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Simone Weil

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

George Eliot

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

Serena Williams

my idea of good company.. is the company of clever, well-informed people. who have a great deal of conversation.

Jane Austen

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. The end is gain, of course. Blessed are they that mourn, for theyshall be made strong, in fact. But the process is like all other human births, painful and long and dangerous.

Margery Allingham, The Tiger in

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

C.S. Lewis

But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

David Axelrod

Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Taylor Caldwell