Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Helen Rowland

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Mahatma Gandhi

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Charles Dickens

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein, On relativity

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

Elizabeth George

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

Edward Thorndike

I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.

Louise Mensch

I am a slave to your love. Well, more like indentured servant.

Jarod Kintz