I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.

By My life! But for the obligation to acknowledge the Cause of Him Who is the Testimony of God... I would not have announced this unto thee... All the keys of heaven God hath chosen to place on My right hand, and all the keys of hell on My left...

Báb

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

Jena Malone

Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.

James A. Michener

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.

Mark Twain

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Paul of Tarsus

The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.

Dick Cheney

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

Alice Sebold

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.

Henry James

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Ambrose Bierce

I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.

Hugh Laurie

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton