Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.

Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

She couldn't detach from him, couldn't catch her breath, and didn't want to. Not ever again.

Everything unsaid can be guessedTruth may not always be confessed

Most of everything is very little of not very much at all.

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

Your husband is lazy if coffee doesn't keep him awake - even when it's hot and being spilled on him.

One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that you can pass it along to someone who has never heard the expression.

Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes