When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

Source Unknown

The world may indeed be evil and ugly, I thought defiantly, it may be soiled with sin, but I also knew that when a man lifts his soul up to the vaults of heaven, reaching seraphic heights with the power of his voice, he becomes an eagle soaring, an instrument of the Holy Ghost

Adriana Koulias

To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns out to be not even a Holocaust denier but a Holocaust affirmer. There has to be a moral limit, and either this has to be it or we must cease pretending to ourselves that we observe one.

Christopher Hitchens

It's easy to look at people and make a quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. and more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

Marilynne Robinson

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

Gore Vidal

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.

Virgil

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

J.A. Konrath

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Epictetus

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

George Galloway