The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

George Eliot

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Paul Bourget

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

Dennis Prager

Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

Koushun Takami

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Bill Russell

Silverfish looked down. Oh. Are you a dwarf? Cuddy gave him a blank stare. Are you a giant? He said. Me? Of course not! Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes. Right! Right!

Terry Pratchett

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Augustine Birrell

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

Kit Williams

There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Victor Hugo

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

Charlie Haden

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

Carroll Shelby