If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Stephen King

Belief creates the actual fact.

William James

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

Donna Rice

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Publilius Syrus

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Alain de Botton

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Norm Dicks

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

Jane Smiley

Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers

George Bernard Shaw

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Benjamin Franklin

They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.

G. K. Chesterton