I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Juvenal

The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

Whitley Strieber

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

John Sununu

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Italian Proverb

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics o

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Alice Walker

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

Audre Lorde

Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last.

Edgar Allan Poe

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Dame Edith Sitwell

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Hal Borland

I'm not a hypochondriac, but my gynaecologist firmly believes I am.

Rodney Dangerfield

To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.

Robert Owen