Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Abu Bakr

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease.

Plutarch

I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.

Debbie Stabenow

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

Henry James Sumner Maine

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

John Prescott

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

Louis L'Amour

He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.

Cassandra Clare

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment.

Stephen Richards

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

Fiona Apple