I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Thomas Carlyle

Alas! the great world goes its way, And takes its truth from each new day; They do not quit, nor can retain, Far less consider it again.

Arthur Hugh Clough

The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see to do the necessary task that was allotted me. Resentment of the vivid glow I started to complain. When all at once upon the air I heard the blind man's cane.

Earl Musselman

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

Joseph Addison

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Walt Disney

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

Julian Barnes

The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.

Josephine Pollard

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

Brad Pitt

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Albert Einstein

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Christian Nevell Bovee