I had patience with them for many ages: they tried me very sorely. They did terrible things: they embraced death, and said that eternal life was a fable. I stood amazed at the malice and destructiveness of the things I had made...

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

John Steinbeck

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

Lewis Mumford

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

James Cagney

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

Sir Winston Churchill

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Lou Reed

I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

Anne Tyler

We came here to serve not be served.

Source Unknown

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

Jodi Picoult

You don't have to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to be great.

Lee J. Colan, Sticking to It

Lawrence had done it in a way, and Joyce. But I think it's an important thing to do now and then, to describe the sex act as our descent, or adventure, into a primordial or strange world, having very little to do with how we look in suits or what our educations have been. It's a well of darkness, as it were, that leaves you refreshed.

John Updike, (on the topic of wr

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

Joseph Stiglitz

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

Laurence Housman