"People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts."

“The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.”

“And what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT TO KILL YOU. I wanted to be more mature, more reasonable, I wanted to have a big, fat, forgiving heart that could contain all this rage and still find room for kind, beneficent love, but I didn't have it in me. I just didn't.”

“The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.”

“Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.”

Source : Paul Fussell (1982). “Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars”, p.39, Oxford University Press

“But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.”

“Not that she didn't love almost every boy she'd ever met, and not that every boy in the world didn't totally love her. It was impossible not to. But she wanted someone to love her and shower her with attention the way only a boy who was completely in love with her could. The rare sort of love. True love. The kind of love she'd never had.”

Source : Cecily von Ziegesar (2012). “Gossip Girl 5: I Like it Like That”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

“If I look at the people that I look up to, a lot of them don't come to the forefront until their early to mid-30s. I think the most exciting roles are definitely yet to come.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.”