The Noblest form of Affection

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Helen Gurley Brown

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Mary Schmich

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

John Updike, Confessions of a Wi

In a way, the world?view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

George Orwell

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Pat Riley

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

Jean-Louis Barrault

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?

Henry Cabot Lodge

While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.

Matt Bevin

If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.

Toba Beta

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.

Stacie Orrico

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

Kristin Kreuk

Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.

Nicola Cabibbo