"Spring is the shortest season."

-- Linda Pastan

“Any new pathway to citizenship is completely off the table ... [Illegal immigrants should be able to get citizenship] the same way as any other immigrant has to do it ... You have to apply for legal permanent residence, be it family-based or employment-based. You shouldn't be treated worse than the people doing it the right way, but I think it would be unconscionable for us to treat them better than the people who are doing it the right way.”
“A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.”
“Of course it is going to be difficult for any player to get in the Chelsea side no matter who they are.”
“Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, thatâ€™s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.”
“Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.”

Source : Peter Porter (1992). “The chair of Babel”, Oxford University Press, USA
“That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.”
“Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.”
“I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.”

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