Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?

Emeli Sande

Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

Diane Ackerman, A Natural Histor

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard

Miss Mary, having been a journalist, had splendid powers of invention. I had never heard her tell a story in the same way twice and always had the feeling she was remolding it for the later editions.

Ernest Hemingway

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

Marcel Proust

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

George Santayana

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

Charles Dickens

Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.

Eric Parslow

Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.

Paul Wellstone

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Rita Mae Brown

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

John Green