He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Caine might have smiled at her, had his heart not been breaking to smithereens inside of him.

V.S. Carnes

Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.

Albert Camus

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

John Dryden

We don't invade countries for the reasons we're told or we would've done a lot of things about a lot of things. They tell you things like they hate freedom so you're okay with them attacking but it's for other reasons.

James Dye

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

Ted Lange

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Chief Joseph

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

Petrarch

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

Candace Bushnell

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Aristotle

The Americans who are the most efficient people on earth...have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on a...conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider more important matters of big business and fornication.

W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and A

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

Hannah Arendt

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Charles de Lint