A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

abstraction, n.Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.

David Levithan

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

John Milton

Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

Ambrose Bierce

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Plato

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Stephen King

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

Nick Rahall

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Aretha Franklin

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

Laurence Sterne

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Dean Acheson, from a speech in I

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

William Cowper

Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.

John Krasinski