"No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another."

“What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.”

“Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It was just accepting. Nothing was ever so bad once you had accepted it.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.334, St. Martin's Press

“As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future belongs more to second-tier cities. Any place can become a world-class center today by finding an area in which it outperforms others, by thinking for the long term, by expanding its competitive abilities and by operating globally.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“Dharma gives you the balance. It gives you the establishment into proper behavior, proper understanding, proper living, but it doesn't give you the completion of your journey. It doesn't give you the satisfaction of reaching the destination and your personality is still incomplete. So one has to have the experience of the spirit.”

“If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.”

Source : The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.89, Penguin

“The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

“I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“My coach is, Look at Novak. Look at him. They're so ripped. I'm like, Yeah, well, I can't look like that.”

Source : Ana Ivanovic during BNP Paribas Open Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. March 10, 2012.