None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

Kelly Miller

A certain person wondered whya big strong girl like mewouldn't keep a jobwhich paid a normal salary.I took my time to lead herand to read her every page.Even minimal peoplecan't survive on minimal wage.A certain person wondered whyI wait all week for you.I didn't have the wordsto describe just what you do.I said you had the motionof the ocean in your walk,and when you solve my riddlesyou don't even have to talk.

Maya Angelou

Everything changes but change.

Israel Zangwill

There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.

Jodi Picoult

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.French: La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Hilaire Belloc

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Thomas Hardy

I'll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I've experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.

Cassandra Clare

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

Rick Perry

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

Emir Kusturica

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow

William Shakespeare

To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby...

Conrad Williams