The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said.She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body.Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. 'I'm glad I wasn't stuck in here alone,' she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath.

Jodi Picoult

Delete the negative accentuate the positive!

Donna Karan

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Martin Amis

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Theodore Parker

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Marcel Proust

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.

Judd Gregg

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

John Locke

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

Bjork

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

Joyce Meyer

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'

Ronald Reagan