I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.

In arms even it is best to attack hearts rather than cities; to fight with sentiment is better than to fight with weapons.

It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.

Few people in the world get to hit their bosses but those who do will tell you it is better than sex.

The fate of the Jewish people is the fate of Macbeth who stepped out of nature itself, clung to alien beings, and so in their service had to trample and slay everything holy in human nature.

Elisabeth Sladen - Sarah Jane Smith

The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.
Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person — yesterday ended last night.

The Webbs are really gone! When I saw the waggons at the door, and thought of all the trouble they must have in moving, I began to reproach myself for not having liked them better, but since the waggons have disappeared my conscience has been closed again, and I am excessively glad they are gone.

All right, everybody! Two parts plutonic quartz... one part cesium... A-And listen, I'm sorry for yelling earlier, I-I-I couldn't ask for a better staff. I love you guys and I love all your families. And the final ingredient...

Betty Friedan 1921-2006

Fashion is what is suggested and often better avoided, [while] style is what each person has and must preserve throughout their life.

No matter how hard things were, tomorrow’s fresh opportunity to make it better. So STOP saying, I wish! From the new year START saying, "I will"!!" in [https://www.facebook.com/1590787747814964/posts/3125665940993796/ official Facebook] (26 December 2020) Retrieved on 5 January 2021.

You know, comrades,” he said, “I’ve got Hannetjie. I’ll betray him tomorrow.”

I had plans for the money, alright... and I would have done just about anything to get my hands on it. Someone else beat me to killing Louis, though. Fine with me. One less step to get what I wanted...

The conflict within material reality, presided over by Vishnu, also manifests as the conflict between the Nagas and Garuda, the serpents and the king of the hawks.

It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.