Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.

William Shakespeare

What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.

Matthew Arnold

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

Heinrich Heine

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

Bjorn Lomborg

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation

Malcolm Gladwell

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Wallace Stevens

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

Sade Adu

The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

Louis Aragon

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

Havelock Ellis

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

Major Owens

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Brian Tracy

She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.

George R.R. Martin