Instant gratification takes too long. Carrie Fisher
US author & movie actress (1956 - ) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. Helen Kelller Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. T.S. Eliot The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. C. S. Lewis, The Poison of Subjectivism (from Christian Reflections; p. 108)
English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14
English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
US novelist & poet (1932 - 1963) I think we agree, the past is over. George W. Bush, On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
43rd President of US (1946 - ) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984-88
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