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- My life closed twice before its' close-
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is lost in light. - Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
- We’d forgive most things if we knew the facts.
- Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
- Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which is it to be fullfilled, and thus baffles all calculation.
- Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
- Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
- William Ockham (1300 - 1349)
- Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
- When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.
- Dom Helder Camara
- When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, Look ... twins!
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
- In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim.
- W. Emerson Wright
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