It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.

J.K. Rowling

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

Orson Scott Card

We are assumed to be rather hopeless -- swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

Elizabeth Berg

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Joseph Joubert

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

J.K. Rowling

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Noam Chomsky

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

Jodi Picoult

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Walter Savage Landor

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

John Nelson Darby

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Peter Abelard

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Samuel Johnson