The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

Neil Gaiman

Of toiling, uncheered and alone,

Source Unknown

He looks like an angel, sings like an angel. He found my breaking heart and coaxed it into a new rhythm.

Angela Morrison

I moved on with my life but I still have a big commitment to Terri. I made her a promise.

Michael Schiavo

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate.

Andrew Matthews

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Anne Lamott

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.

Anne Rice

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

Sir Peter Medawar

I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.

Sebastian Junger

I want you forever, not just for tonight.

Sylvain Reynard

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Jean Giraudoux