I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

P.C. Cast

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Maximilien Robespierre

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

William Sanderson

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

Cathy Guisewite

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn

I can not live with out books.

Thomas Jefferson

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

Arsenio Hall

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

Francesca Annis

Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations. Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come. She did not rebuke Jo with saintly speeches, only loved her better for her passionate affection, and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself. She could not say, I'm glad to go, for life was very sweet for her. She could only sob out, I try to be willing, while she held fast to Jo, as the first bitter wave of this great sorrow broke over them together.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women,

Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Thomas Carlyle

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

Clifford Geertz

Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded in transferring his hatred from the face on the screen to the dark?haired girl behind him. Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian. He would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment of climax. Better than before, moreover, he realized why it was that he hated her. He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.

George Orwell