The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment...

J.K. Rowling

People just liked Hassan, the way people like fast food and celebrities.

John Green

All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.

Steve Sabol

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

John Locke

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

John Cheever

What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.

Geraldine Ferraro

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

Steve Maraboli

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

John Webster, White Devil (act V

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Boris Pasternak

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Bertrand Russell

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Nicol Williamson

Watching my sister glowing I wonder why, if the sun is so warm, it doesn't dry her tears. Sunlight is supposed to do that, I think, sunlight should dry all the rain.

Jillian Madoff