Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Simone Weil

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoover

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Niklaus Wirth

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.

Buddha

Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land . . .

Harriet Tubman, In Harriet Tubma

Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

General George Patton

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

Mitt Romney

Nearly all of it is now called in by the banks, who have the regulation of the safety-valves of our fortunes, and who condense and explode them at their will.

Thomas Jefferson

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

David Hockney

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo DaVinci

If on a sinking ship out at sea, the moral law is to always help save women

Timothy Pina