No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it

Was there ever such an autumn? And yet there was never such a panic and hard times in the commercial world. The merchants and banks are suspending and failing all the country over, but not the sandbanks, solid and warm, and streaked with bloody blackberry vines.You may run upon them as much as you please--even as the crickets do, and find their account in it. They are the stockholders in these banks, and I hear them creaking their content.

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, Oc

You of all people, the void communicated. Out of everyone, it is you I love the most.

Philip K. Dick

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

Orson Scott Card

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

Noam Chomsky

Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Thomas Merton

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Samuel Johnson

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Louis C. K.

I could never dream of being cool.

Andrea Corr

Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.

Toba Beta

I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.

Shannon Hale

I think everything depends on money.

Alan Bean

«No podría ser feliz con un hombre cuyo gusto no coincidiera en todo momento con el mío. Tendría que participar en todos mis sentimientos. Los mismos libros, la misma música habría de hechizarnos a los dos.

Jane Austen