"Hatred only tarnishes the soul that carries it."
- D.B. Harrop
"For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is as bitter as wormword, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps lay hold ..."
- Justin Cronin
"All my biggest failures began with the smallest compromises."
- Jori Sams
"We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress."
- Sam Harris
"That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you..."
- Scott Westerfeld
"And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"We pick the people who populate our personal lives as much for who they make us as for who they are. I chose Anna for the person I became in her presence, and in this respect, my love for her was a mo..."
- Zack Love
"There is nothing sexier than sword fight."
- Stana Katic
"Madeleine in her turn stared at him steadily, straight into his eyes, in a profound, strange way, as if seeking to read something there, as if seeking to discover there that hidden part of a human bei..."
- Guy de Maupassant
"No, I mean, this is a problem that most people have. A problem of the human condition. We get ahold of some kind of shorthand in understanding people, and we think it works, and we use it to assess, c..."
- Phillip DePoy