Some people never head a procession until they're dead.

Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are, Jonathan; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it, and you'll survive.

Cassandra Clare

Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.

H.B. Bolton

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

David Bohm

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

Deepak Chopra

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Andre Maurois

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

Murray Gell-Mann

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

George Santayana

I feel the need, the need for speed.

tom cruise, top gun movie

Once a person says, This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do, it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David Viscott

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

Oscar Wilde

Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings

Ambrose Bierce

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Anna Letitia Barbauld