A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.

Tudo parecia organizado da melhor forma possível, como se de fato o mundo constasse somente de palavras, como se assim o próprio horror fosse trazido para dimensões seguras, como se para cada aspecto de uma coisa houvesse um reverso, para cada mal um bem, para cada dissabor um prazer, para cada infelicidade uma felicidade e para cada mentira um quinhão de verdade.

W.G. Sebald

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

Francine Rivers

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

James D. Watson

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

Stephen King

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Alphonse de Lamartine

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Glen Buck

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.

Rollo Armstrong

What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.

Peter Viereck

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Soren Kierkegaard

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Christian Nevell Bovee