For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Johnson, who defines as 'metrical composition', defines as 'An inventor; an author of fiction; a writer of poems; one who writes in measure'. We can gauge how far we have traveled by comparing this with the Shorter Oxford Dictionary which, after a definition very like Johnson's, feels obligated to add 'A writer in verse (or sometimes in elevated prose) distinguished by imaginative power, insight, sensibility, and faculty of expression'.

C.S. Lewis

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

Jon Meacham

The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of its crucial causes and consequences -- as though a bridge could be made to change part of its function by blowing up part of its supports and part of its exit.

Ronald Segal

What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.

Gregory Maguire

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Samuel Butler

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

Chris Rock

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

Padma Lakshmi

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

Louise Brown

Go, Soul, the body

Sir Walter Raleigh, The Lie

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Charles Dickens

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.

Philip James Bailey