When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

I need you in front of me, saying my name, saying to me... I choose the way you areYou, the way you are

Brandon Boyd

I had the feeling she was going to say something big. One of us had to say it. What happened to us? Where are we going? It was like this silence between us was frozen and we were both feeling our way around it. How is it that two people can need each other so absolutely and then, in moments, not even know how to be next to each other and just be quiet?

Heather Duffy Stone

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

Georges Bataille

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

William Blake

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

Roy Scheider

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Jean Paul

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

Charles M. Schulz

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Orison Swett Marden

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

Abbott L. Lowell

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Michel de Montaigne