Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

There is a great solitude about such a shore. The woods are never solitary- they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery- we may only wander, awed and spell-bound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only- a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Jeffrey Tate

Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.

Cassandra Clare

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there.

Kathy Griffin

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

George Bernard Shaw

God will not let any violence go unpunished, but He Himself will take vengeance on our enemies and will send home to them what they have deserved by the way they have treated us. As He Himself says (Deut. 23:55): Vengeance is Mine, I will repay. On the basis of this, St. Paul admonishes the Christians (Rom. 12:19): Never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God. These words are not only instruction but also consolation, as if He were to say: Do not take it upon yourselves to avenge yourselves on one another or to speak curses and maledictions. The person that does you harm or injury is interfering with the office of God and sinning against God as gravely as this man has sinned against you. Therefore, keep your fist to yourself. Leave it to the charge of His wrath and punishing, for He will not let it remain unavenged, and His punishment is more severe than you would like. This man has not assailed you but God Himself, and has already fallen into His wrath. He will not escape this. No one ever has. So why get angry with him when the anger of God, immensely greater and more severe than the anger and punishment of the whole world, has already come upon him and has already avenged itself more thoroughly than you ever could? Besides, he has not injured you one tenth as much as he has injured God. When you see him lying under the severe condemnation, why so many curses and threats of vengeance? Rather you should take pity on his plight, and pray for him to be rescued from it and to reform.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.

Guy Lafleur

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Johann von Goethe

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

Ask the right questions. The fastest way to change the answers you receive

Lee J. Colan, 107 Ways to Stick