I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

C.S. Lewis

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Oliver Goldsmith

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

Andrew Sullivan

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

Craig Ferguson

Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.

H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.

Orson Scott Card

It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.

David Merrick

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Harold Hook

unrequitted love amuses me

Cassandra Clare

Freedom of the person under the protection of habeas corpus. I deem one of the essential principles of our government.

Thomas Jefferson

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.

George Orwell