A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

Susan Smith

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

Orville Wright

There is no such thing as a functional illiterate.

Kelvin Throop III

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Nelson Boswell

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

James Martineau

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sin get bigger right along with him.

Leo Tolstoy

If sex were all, then every trembling handCould make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

Wallace Stevens

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

Billie Jean King

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

Lord Palmerston

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

William Blake

I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

Larisa Oleynik