"Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her."

“I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.”

“At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.”

Source : "Laura Dekker: a heroine for our times" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.

“O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.”

“The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.”

“Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means; it is the whole of which they are ingredients.”

“I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.”

“The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.”

Source : James M. Cain (2010). “Mildred Pierce”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

“I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.”