love distance quotes

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books. ~Henry David Thoreau



Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. ~Simone Weil



We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ~Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man



If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops. ~Kelvin Throop



Those playful fancies of the mighty sky. ~Albert Smith (clouds)



Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. ~Allen Klein Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom. ~V.P. Pappy



The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American. ~Thomas Jefferson



The Occidental snobbery which is invading us, the gunboats, rapid-fire guns, long-range rifles, explosives... what else? Everything which makes death collective, administrative and bureaucratic - all the filth of your progress, in fact - is destroying, little by little, our beautiful traditions of the past. ~"The Garden," Chapter 6



What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. ~Aldous Huxley



Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ~Seneca



There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes



A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927



Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee. ~Stephanie Piro



Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ~Christian Nestell Bovee



A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. ~Jean Burden



Those who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. ~George J.W. Goodman, The Money Game



History is a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living. ~William Carlos Williams



Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? ~J.K. Rowling, "King's Cross," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. ~Alfred North Whitehead



Dick Cheney had a mild heart attack, but they say he'll soon be able to resume his regular activities. I thought having heart attacks was his regular activity. Anyway, since he's a Republican, the heart isn't a major organ. ~Jay Leno