The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

Anthony Collins

The heat intensified. My emotions were spinning out of control. The euphoria was maddening. Out of pure instinct, I pulled away and leaned against the wall, unable to find enough air to breathe. The more I pulled away, the strong the raw ache inside of me became, causing me more pain than the lack of oxygen in the room. Then I realized the source of my pain. It dawned on me with a shocking certainty. I hadn't wanted to pull away from Nathan. I needed him closer in order to feel safe. I needed his touch, his feel. I needed him now more than I ever had.

Markelle Grabo

The best director is the one you don't see.

Billy Wilder

Selflessness = Greatness

Ogunlela Olu

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

Troy Polamalu

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

Gregory David Roberts

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

Reeve Carney

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Edward F. Halifax

The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?

Mercedes Lackey

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

George Orwell

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

George Eliot

The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.

Rainer Maria Rilke