The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

Origen

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Raoul Vaneigem

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

Richard D. Rosen

It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.

Jon Porter

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Charles Baudelaire

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

Leo Tolstoy

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

John Cale

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

Mary Kay Blakely

From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.

Virginia Foxx

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life; it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promi

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Calvin Coolidge