But this is touching, Severus, said Dumbledore seriously. Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?For him? shouted Snape. Expecto Patronum!From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.After all this time?Always, said Snape.And the scene shifted

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

For me, I've derived from religion... what... I enjoy... and it's to go to church, but usually... when there's nobody else there. I just love that moment, ah, to just sit there. It's very peaceful, very calm, and very therapeutic, and it's... wonderful.

Enya

Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.

Ellen Pompeo

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

James Clerk Maxwell

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

William Maxwell

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Mahatma Gandhi

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

E.M.Bounds

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Alan King

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

Hermann Hesse

Do not consider Collectivists as sincere but deluded idealists. The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not idealistic, no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Ayn Rand

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Mark Twain

Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

Christopher Hitchens