One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

All the tiny things made this mammoth union up, all the times he had picked her up from Sutherland station, made her chicken salad rolls and brought her a Lipton's iced tea, called her about Sunday and fixed Nina's shed door hinge, held her and not fucked her when she was dying with period pain, thought of what she said last night and made something of it the following afternoon, all these unspectacular deposits of love he had made and they were the currency, earning enough to have her see that he was nothing but the right one.

Brendan Cowell

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

Lena Dunham

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

Vanna Bonta

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

Mary Doria Russell

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

Alexander Pope

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

Joseph Crowley

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

George H. W. Bush

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Mary Chesnut

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

Carrie Underwood