Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!

Eliza Cook

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

Terry Pratchett

O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.

William Shakespeare

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

David Brinkley

Życie to pasmo nieustannych porażek i rozczarowań, ale tylko od Ciebie zależy jak zamienisz je w swój życiowy sukces.

Emil W.Wachol

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

E. M. Forster

For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.

Jacqueline Emerson

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

Tony Campolo

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

Paula Fox

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Emily Bronte

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

Sheldon Jackson

Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)