Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004
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Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCEveryone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.
—George Eliot, 1860Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951