"Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it."

-- Fred Saberhagen

#Wife Quotes #Alarms Quotes #Literature Quotes

“This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for the greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give. There is no glory in throwing it away where there is no hope.”
“Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.”
“We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession, in which those phenomena (various planetary happenings) follow each other, and by the harmony of the world, if we will only, as the saying goes, look at the matter with both eyes.”
“Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.”
“No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.”
“And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now.”
“The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.”

Source : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.
“Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.”

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