Stern is the on-look of necessity,Not without shudder may a human handGrasp the mysterious urn of destiny.

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

Source Unknown

I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man's debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume his actual crimes as if they were your own; for one thing you did not commit them and might have died rather than do so; for another this impossible action would rob him of individual responsibility. So the whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out the ethical principles for ourselves.

Christopher Hitchens

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

Irwin Shaw

If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Will Cuppy

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

John Hall

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Henri Estienne

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Publilius Syrus

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Coco Chanel

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned

Thomas Carlyle

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

Sigmar Gabriel

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

Haniel Long

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

Peter Steele