"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not."

“Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.”

“Everything I wear doesnt put me in the league of women. If I were a boy, I could look a lot prettier than a lot of boys I know.”

“The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. I think I've said that before, but it's getting harder every day.”

Source : Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

“In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.”

Source : 'Germinal' (1931)

“If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.”

“I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese.”

“The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far”

“Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.”

Source : "Praeger Handbook on Understanding and Preventing Workplace Discrimination". Book by Michele Antoinette Paludi, p. 13, 2010.