Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

Trust me, if you're working on a $70 million movie and you're the last guy, you feel all that weight on your shoulders.

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

I don't like to power trip, but when you're a boss you have to fight for certain things.

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

I think cheating can inherently mean a deeper problem, someone is acting out.

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.