"For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise."

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”

“All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.”

Source : Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Marco da Nizza (padre), Antonio de Mendoza (1964). “The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative”

“If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.”

“I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.”

Source : Jack Campbell (2006). “The Lost Fleet: Dauntless”, p.40, Penguin

“I want to create a lifestyle niche for that cool girl who's really into fashion but not too obsessed with it.”

“There’s always going to be ups and downs in life and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel the pain. Pain is good. It makes you stronger in time. You will realize how great the ‘great’ really is. Life is about ups and downs. You just have to be able to ride the waves.”

“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.”

“I'm on the verge of taking a stand.”