She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Thomas Carlyle

There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...

William Shakespeare

Suddenly, over the slope, as if tethered to a cord of air drawing quickly upward, came a Northern Harrier, motionless but for its rising. So still was the bird - wings, tail, head - it might have been a museum specimen. Then, as if atop the wind, it slid down the ridge, tilted a few times, veered, tacked up the hill, its wings hardly shifting. I though, if I could be that hawk for one hour I'd never again be just a man.

William Least Heat Moon

It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works and how its contents evolve with time.

Alex Filippenko

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Bob Dylan

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.

Rudyard Kipling

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

Mike Gordon

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Jesus Christ

If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. G. Wells

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

Michel de Montaigne

A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Alexander Cockburn

I was too young that time to value her,But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together,Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together,And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans,Still we went coupled and inseparable.

William Shakespeare