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"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"

"The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace."

"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."

"The only possible solution which will preserve Germany's honor and Germany's interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia."

"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."

"The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God."

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love."

"farther to the Left in his political opinions than any of his socialist rivals."

"A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour."

"In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power."

"Pragmatically speaking, there exists no possibility of Taiwan independence. The only option is whether to reunify or not."

"But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves."

"To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad."

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

"Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests."

"There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love."

"Israel without Jerusalem is like a body without a heart. Our heart will never be divided again."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart."

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."

"This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?"

"The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality."

"The average intelligence quotient of Australian aborigines is more or less equal to a child with Down syndrome, and no one thinks to do abortions on Aborigines."

"You try to claim that the GPLv3 causes "More developers", and that, my idiotic penpal, is just crazy talk that you made up."

"I express the very deepest condolences to the family of the deceased on whose shoulders rest major events for the good of the country and serious mistakes."

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."

"It was the saying of Bion, that though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest."

"There is one Resolution I will not omit. Resolved that no Slaves be imported into any of the thirteen colonies."

"“In every parganah officers have come from the thanahs with orders from the Presence for the destruction of idols."

"Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}"

"In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing."

"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."

"The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them."

"That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but: "You have to flee." and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality."

"Spinoza did not seek to found a sect, and he founded none"; yet all philosophy after him is permeated with his thought."

"Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time."

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

"May Allah give us strength to make love, compassion, modernity, democracy, freedom, everything beautiful and everything Allah loves prevail in the world."

"Even if I were to kiss and hug Anwar Ibrahim in public, they will say there is a rift because this is what they want to see."

"The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place."

"We are committed, in front of God, to the Egyptian and Arab people that we will protect Egypt, the Egyptians and their free will."

"If the ethical – that is, social morality – is the highest … then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories."

"Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long."

"There will necessarily be a tension between the church and tradition on one hand and human rights on the other."

"The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge."

"The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!"

"Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"I think that we do not deserve life, I think that religions have been and continue to be instruments of domination and death."

"Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, research is the means of all learning, and ignorance is the end."

"It is impossible to finish off capitalism without having finished off social democracy in the working-class movement."

"Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive."

"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."

"To find accidently a handwritten letter of some old friend in a trunk. Ah, is this not happiness?"

"It’s easy to lose your reputation, it’s easy to lose your friends, to lose their confidence, than to regain it."

"...it is certain that Bulgarian football hooliganism is just the visible part of a more complex issue: corruption and xenophobia have embraced each other."

"In my opinion, a life governed by reason is likely to be more dignified than one shaped by dogma and unbridled emotions."

"And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know."

"Knowledge and science are the coffers and caches to the treasures of Perfection; and the only access to them is to ask and question."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"My dear friend, a doctor and spokeperson of the Physicians' Coordinating Committee in Damascus was killed today by Syrian security forces"

"That should answer your question. I don't have to respond to every cretin, do I? I am already responding to most of them."

"To say that the cross emblazoned with the papal coat of arms, and set up by the indulgence preachers, is equal in worth to the cross of Christ is blasphemy."

"more than a colleague, more than a friend. I feel him like a brother. A man who loved every culture, you know, an open minded man."

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."

"• Increase of P15 million for the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos for the Hajj Travel Assistance and Endowment Administration Services;"

"If you desire purification of the heart then shut your eye from the corporeal world. This is the hole through which heart is defiled."

"I'm known for speaking my mind, a trait I probably inherited from my parents, Louis and Mary Leakey—neither of whom was renowned for tact."

"Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

"Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul."

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

"Life is not supposed to make things complex. It is to unwind things, by giving simple answers to simple questions."

"O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God."

"When we begin to close our eyes on veiled girls in the name of "modesty" ... we finally close our eyes to girls raped under the guise of "marriage."

"The amount I have learned till B.A, I believe in three years time i can put inside little children's mind better, reciting stories..."

"Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion."

"Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence."

"We cannot develop unless we enjoy both internal and external freedom: even the freedom of thinking about freedom."

"That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."

"A solution to one problem can not be totally applicable to other problems. It is said that there are no two problems that are exactly alike."

"They are the insurmountable obstacle, the lurking snake, the crafty and malicious scorpion, the spying enemy and the penetrating venom."

"It also happens, rather often, that politicians do not actually talk to each other but only to one another's shadows as they appear in the media."

"and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again."

"The Legionaries have been called by God to sound the trumpet for the resurrection of Romania after centuries of darkness and oppression."

"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."

"The most remarkable thing about man's dreams is that they all come true; this has always been the case, though no one would care to admit it."

"We are 12 billion light-years from the edge. That's a guess — no-one can ever say it's true, but I know that I will always be with you."

"The United States has the luxury of being very far from the front. Unfortunately, information war isn’t geographical — so, America, welcome to the war."

"Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!"

"What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag."

"I wonder, if France really wants to create a Muslim state in Europe, why don't they empower them to do this in Paris or Britain?"

"...debbe un uomo prudente entrare sempre per vie battute da uomini grandi, e quelli che sono stati eccellentissimi, imitare..."

"A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today."

"Biography, bibliography and access to digital sources in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science"

"I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion."

"If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge."

"It is said that the Shariat prospers under the shadow of the sword . And the glory of the holy Shariat depends on the kings of Islam…"

"There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated."

"Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance."

"Goodness to parents, and paying visits to ones own relatives, will ease the accounting on the Day of Judgement."

"I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems."

"When I was a child, the Devil himself bought me a mic. But I refused the offer, 'cuz God sent me to strike, with skills unused like fallopian tubes on a dyke."

"I don’t miss basketball. I live very well, thank God. I have my interests, interests in agriculture."

"It is the party’s steadfast determination to ensure that the people will never have to tighten their belt again."

"Within the bounds of the four seas, all men are brothers."

"For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories."

"I am always giving advice to young players about how things are, how important it is to work hard every day to reach the glory days."

"The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame."

"14 Proposition. The day of Gods judgement appears to fall betwixt the yeares of Christ, 1688. and 1700."

"Tax crimes should be investigated by the tax bureau, not through secret police detention."

"Unless we are free from fear we will not be able to give our children the kind of future that we would like them to have."

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

"Tolstoy pitilessly stips himself before our eyes. There are few writers who show us truths like these. p. 85"

"The Persian treatise of Sufism, Kashf ul Mahjoob: Justice Pir Muhammad Karam Shah Al-Azhari , Zia-ul-Quran Publications, Lahore, 2001"

"A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order."