Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive (Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven)
I get asked, ‘Who would you really like to work with?’ I’m already working with them. Smart, talented, funny people, good musicians, an extended family, good friends (Christopher Guest)
Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman (Guillermo del Toro, The Strain)
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever (Peabo Bryson)
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work (George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London)
All live and die believing that they have known love, thinking it is a common thing, because they confuse it with animal satisfaction; but love is a privilege, love is a lottery of fate, like wealth, like beauty, which only a small minority enjoy…. (Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Luna Benamor)
Only by changing the state of consciousness can we change mankind (Debasish Mridha)
Everyday she loses a bit more of herself , every day another nail in her coffin house payments medical bills and middle aged isolation – Saira Viola, Jukebox: a stylish London crime novel
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society (Robert Casey)
It is not the employer who pays wages – he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. (Henry Ford)