It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

Wiz Khalifa

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Sir Walter Scott

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

Kiana Tom

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Julie Burchill

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Dickens

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

Herbert Croly

We may enjoy our room in the tower, with the painted walls and the commodious bookcases, but down in the garden there is a man digging who buried his father this morning, and it is he and his like who live the real life and speak the real language.

Virginia Woolf

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

Renata Adler

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.

Bernard Loiseau

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action

Ralph Waldo Emerson