A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations

Kahlil Gibran

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

Emma Thompson

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Henry David Thoreau

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu

Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.

Josephine Humphreys

Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice of you like. Being a warlock, and all.

Cassandra Clare

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

Will Rogers