The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But while there was life there was fear.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Benjamin Disraeli

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Joseph Conrad

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

Louis Pasteur

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

Richelle Mead

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Bob Riley

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

J. K. Rowling

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

Lauryn Hill

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

Aesop

Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

William M. Holden

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Robert Hewison

I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life

Plato