Being single doesn't mean you're weak. It means that you're strong enough to wait for what you deserve.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

Michael Jordan

Nessuna passione cova più forte in petto all'uomo, del desiderio di far pensare gli altri a modo proprio. Nulla offusca tanto il cielo della sua felicit? , nulla lo riempie tanto di furore, quanto il sapere che un altro tiene a vili cose di cui egli fa gran conto. Whigs e Tories, liberali e laburisti, per che cosa lottano - se non per il loro prestigio? Non l'amore della verit? , ma la sete di dominio scaglia fazione contro fazione, e fa desiderare a una parrocchia la rovina di un'altra parrocchia. Ognuno pensa a serbare la pancia per i fichi e ad asservirsi l'avversario, piuttosto che al trionfo della verit? e all'esaltazione della virtù.

Virginia Woolf

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

Kurt Vonnegut

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.

Jaron Lanier

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

Doris Lessing

The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like clouds, and she would ring them out like the rain.

Markus Zusak

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

Mark Twain

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

William Howard Taft

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

George Eliot

Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!

Joseph Conrad, Marlow, in Lord J

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

Paul R. Ehrlich

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

Ann Brashares