How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

under his dripping hair, he was as white as parchment, his hands clenched at his sides so tightly that they were shaking. It seemed clear that some terrible turmoil was ripping him apart from the inside out.

Cassandra Clare

I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.

Barry Goldwater

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

William Seward

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Benjamin Disraeli

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

Emily Blunt

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Thomas Mann

Things fall apart. But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

Robin Wasserman

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Alfred Hitchcock

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau