He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Kim Stanley Robinson

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

Terry Pratchett

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

Liza Minnelli

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

Joan Rivers

Quicker by taking more time.

Proverb

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

Muhammad Ali

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.

C.S. Lewis

In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.

Ellen G. White

We are not made for life at all, old horse. It is made for us. We live it. We leave it.

David Gemmell

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

Source Unknown

Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.

Michael Ondaatje

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin