There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

A dead shepherd brought tremendous chords from hell And bad the sheep carouse. Or so they said. Children in love with them brought early flowers And scattered them about, no two alike.

Wallace Stevens

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Because she deserved more than me. She deserved someone who could give her the whole universe.

Jacqueline Rayner

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Andrea Dworkin

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

James Russell Lowell

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

Layne Staley

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

Libba Bray

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Alphonse de Lamartine

This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions.

Daniel Webster

Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.

Blaise Pascal

But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.

Terry Pratchett

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Arthur Schopenhauer