My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

John Dewey

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Aberjhani

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

Chris Robinson

The myths have always condemned those who looked back. Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

Dag Hammarskjold

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

Leo Tolstoy

She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure.

Paulo Coelho

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Charles Darwin

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Bob Feller

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

Dave Eggers