..white lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Thomas Carlyle

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.

Hans Christian Andersen

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

Maria Mitchell

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Andre Maurois

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

William Penn

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

Stephen Harper

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Henry Ward Beecher

I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.

Jodi Picoult

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

Sharon Olds

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.

Lester Bangs

Art is my life and my life is art.

Yoko Ono