Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful.

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.

Bertrand Russell

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Elia Kazan

Everything is a learning experience.

Angus T. Jones

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Helen Keller

Nick stands up and offers his hand to me. I have no idea what he wants, but what the hell, I take his hand anyway, and he pulls me up on my feet then presses against me for a slow dance and it's like we're in a dream where he's Christopher Plummer and I'm Julie Andrews and we're dancing on the marble floor of an Austrian terrace garden. Somehow my head presses Nick's t-shirt and in this moment I am forgetting about time and Tal because maybe my life isn't over. Maybe it's only beginning.

Rachel Cohn

I like getting married, but I don't like being married.

Don Adams

What is true about music is true about life: that beauty reveals everything because it expresses nothing.

Mandy Slade

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

Ben Affleck

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

Andrea Dworkin

Priority is a function of context.

Stephen Covey

If you stop telling people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it out while they're alive.

Terry Pratchett