Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation

Charles Dickens

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers -- such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a fa?ade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Nicolaus Copernicus

When I tell him that Im falling in love Why does he say Hush, hush, keep it down now. Voices carry?

Aimee Mann

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

Lisa See

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

Ellen DeGeneres

What force is more potent than love?

Igor Stravinsky

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Aldous Huxley

Unfortunately, the truth is usually the first casualty in an interaction between two people.

Steve Maraboli

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

Chrisette Michele

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

George Osborne

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

Publilius Syrus