"Age either transfigures or petrifies."

-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“The unprepared speaker has a right to be afraid.”
“I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.”
“Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.”
“No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.”
“I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it.”
“A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.”
“I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.”

Source : William Hague's Speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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