One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.

John Green

The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

Tommy Franks

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge.

Confucius

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

Vielleicht gibt es ja gar keine tollen, wunderbaren Menschen. Und wir reden es uns für eine kurze Weile nur ein, dass der oder der toll und wunderbar ist, damit wir einen Grund haben, uns in ihn zu verlieben. Sozusagen ein Alibi für die Liebe.

Brigitte Blobel

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

Amit Ray

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

Ang Lee

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Lewis Mumford

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

Pain with the thousand teeth.

Sir William Watson

If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

Terry Pratchett

A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron