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- Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
- John Hodgman
- There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act III, sc.1
- O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act I, sc. 2
- It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
- Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fineless is as poor as winter to him that ever that ever fears he shall be poor.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act III, sc. 3
- Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
- Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
- Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
- Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
- Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
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