Our Quotes

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.

We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it.

Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.

Children reinvent your world for you.

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

The youth is the hope of our future.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.