What is a society without a heroic dimension?

You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

Michael J. Fox

The beautiful part about killing someone with an icicle is the murder weapon melts and then evaporates. And your assassination can be fruit flavored!?

Jarod Kintz

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Jane Austen

No lies, just love.

Conor Oberst

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

William Butler Yeats

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

Friedrich Nietzsche

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Cassandra Clare

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb

...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.

Paul Klee

Say not, the struggle naught availeth,The labor and the wounds are vain,The enemy faints not, nor faileth,And as things have been, they remain.If hopes are dupes, fears may be liars;It may be, in yon smoke concealedYour comrades chase e'en now the fliersAnd, but for you, possess the field.For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,Seem here no painful inch to gain,Far back, through creeks and inlets making,Comes silent, flooding in, the main.And not by eastern windows only,When daylight comes, comes in the light;In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly,But westward, look, the land is bright.

Arthur H. Clough, The Land is Br

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

Ric Keller

So that's what we did - rocketing down Sixth Avenue, dashing around the rest of the post-concert crowd, splashing our tracks until our ankles were soaked. You took the lead, and I started to lose my sprint. But then you looked back, stopped, and waited for me to catch up, for me to take your hand, for us to continue to run in the rain, drenched and enchanted, my words to Amanda no longer feeling like a requirement, but a foretelling.

David Levithan