The planet is fine. The people are fucked. - George Carlin

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude.. - Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift

She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-form to do this, she should have a species named after her. Once Uncle Julian told me how the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti said that sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you’re limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter-of-an-inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.My mother did not choose a leaf or a head. She chose my father. And to hold on to a certain feeling, she sacrificed the world. - Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else. - Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it. - Mark Doty

This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning. - Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter

Some things take so longBut how do I explainWhen not too many peopleCan see we're all the sameAnd because of all their tearsYour eyes can't hope to seeThe beauty that surrounds themNow, isn't it a pity - George Harrison

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle - David Nicholls, One Day

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice. - James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends - John Lennon

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. - Steve Martin

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance. - A.J. Russell

In secret we met -In silence I grieve,That thy heart could forget,Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years,How should I greet thee? -With silence and tears - George Gordon Byron

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me? - John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

A study in the Washington Post says that women havebetter verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh. - Conan O'Brien

Patience Is Not the Ability to Wait: Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time. - Marie Lu, Champion

There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better. - Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art - it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.