Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
-Samuel Dickey Gordon
There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born, where objects became dear to us before we had known the labour of choice.
-George Eliot
She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.
-Cynthia Voigt
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
-John R. Wooden
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
-José Saramago
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
-Nikola Tesla
The superior man does not embark upon any affair until he has carefully planned the start.