For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

Elizabeth Edwards

The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.

Proverb

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

Paul Ryan

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.

Lesley Visser

Nay, Georias, I call him the bravest man,Who knows to suffer the most injuriesWith patience. All this swiftness of resentmentIs proof of a little mind.

Menander

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

Tyra Banks

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

Plato

Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.

Hans Christian von Baeyer

If I keep saying it, if I keep reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.

Stephen King

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.

Gustave Flaubert