The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

Psychology is the science of mental life

William James

The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

Sheena Easton

Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.

Paulo Coelho

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.

Oscar Wilde

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

Edward Dahlberg

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Chris Evert

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Nothing else matters now that you love me.' - suicide note

Bauvard

I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?

Terry Pratchett

What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.

Aung San Suu Kyi

'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time

Ralph Waldo Emerson