The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice

Abraham Lincoln

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Elspeth Huxley

Eternity -- waste of time.

Natalie Clifford Barney

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.

Mark Twain

But I must own that I am much in the Dark about Light. I am not satisfy'd with the doctrine that supposes particles of matter call'd light continually driven off from the Sun's Surface, with a Swiftness so prodigious!

Benjamin Franklin

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinion

We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?

Erin Gray

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

Oscar Wilde

Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

Gary Bauer

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

Lukas Foss

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

Haile Gebrselassie

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Orson Scott Card