The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Pleasure therefore, (or Delight,) is the appearance or sense of Good; and Molestation or Displeasure, the appearance or sense of Evil.

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ch. 6,

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Cesare Pavese

The world is new to us every morning - this is God's gift and every man should believe he is reborn each day.

Baal Shem Tov

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

Ann Brashares

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Jean Baudrillard

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

Henry Miller

But remember, when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it but by force. Many instances can be produced in which the people have voluntarily increased the powers of their rulers; but few, if any, in which rulers have willingly abridged their authority. This is a sufficient reason to induce you to be careful, in the first instance, how you deposit the powers of government.

Robert Yates

God loves you even on your blackest days, and He will always, be there to guide you home. All you have to do is look for the light of His love.

Lauren Myracle

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get.

Terry Pratchett

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Pr?s: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.

Cyril Connolly