Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

Nick Hornby

It's an infernal nuisance to love Life as I do. I seem to love it more as time goes on rather than less. It never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. I do hope I'll be able to keep in it long enough to do some really good work. I'm sick of people dying who promise well.

Katherine Mansfield

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

David Storey

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.

Oscar Levant

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

Neal Boortz

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

William Shakespeare

Still a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

General Robert E. Lee

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

Sophia Bush

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

Ovid

I cannot be fired. Slaves have to be sold.

Source Unknown

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.'

George Carlin