"certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being."

“When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown”

“Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.”

“Patch? Whatever happens, I love you." I wanted to say more, those three words painfully inadequate for the way I felt about him. And at the same time, so simple and accurate, nothing else would do.”

“I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.”

“The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned...”

Source : Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

“You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.”

Source : Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella”, p.510, Penguin

“Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.”

Source : Song: The Rule Won't Die, Album: Rule 3:36

“The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.”