"The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists."

“This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural.”

Source : "Might Is Right, or The Survival of the Fittest". Book by Arthur Desmond (Chapter 4: Man - The Carnivore!, Section 1), 1890.

“Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.”

“I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.”

Source : David Millar, Jeremy Whittle (2012). “Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

“You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.”

“We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid.... We should measure our era by how many people take no notice at all. A legacy rises to become culture only when its elements are so common that they no longer attract comment.”

“Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.”

“If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.”

“she kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever kissed her, feeling faint with joy when he began to kiss her back, his mouth moving with fierce tenderness, then opening with fiery demand over hers, until their breaths were mingled gasps, and they were straining to one another.”