Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.
Zoë Heller
Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was
Jonathan Safran Foer
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.
Nikki Reed
A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.
Peter Barrett
Losing is easy. It's not enjoyable, but it's easy.
