Ditto #642

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

--English proverb

Ditto #641

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.

--Flannery O'Connor

Ditto #640

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

--William Shakespeare

Ditto #639

Day by day, O Lord, may I see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, and follow thee more nearly, day by day.

--Godspell

Ditto #638

There are some who do not pray nor make sacrifices; there are many who live solely for the idolatry of their senses. There should be compensation. There should be someone who prays and makes sacrifices for those who do not do so. If this spiritual balance is not established, earth would be destroyed by the evil one.

--St. Claire of Assisi

Ditto #637

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

--Tennessee Williams

Ditto #636

O barulho não faz bem e o bem não faz barulho.

--São Francisco de Sales

Ditto #635

Pedem-me para falar sobre o mundo, mas seria tão bom falar só sobre livros.

--Abdulrazak Gurnah

Ditto #634

Nothing is more properly a man's own than the fruit of his study, and the protection and security of literary property would greatly tend to encourage genius and to promote useful discoveries.

--Copyright petition to the Continental Congress in 1783

Ditto #633

I am 82 years old. I'm a college graduate, an Episcopalian, a former radio broadcaster, the author of novels, essays, sonnets, limericks, and my days of standing in long lines for hours ended long ago. If when I die, I face a long line at the gates of heaven, I will consider alternatives.

--Garrison Keillor

Ditto #632

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

--Mary Oliver

Ditto #631

The beauty of degradation is how it makes everything else shinier.

--Garrison Keillor

Ditto #630

Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

--Mary Schmich

Ditto #629

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

--Winston Churchill, on 20.08.1940 as hte Battle of Britain raged on successfully holding off the Luftwaffe

Ditto #628

It’s a place where you can afford to fail. You can try things that you don’t know will work. If they don’t, you might find out why.

--Lanford Wilson

Ditto #627

I sometimes joke that my greatest shortcoming as a writer is that I had an extremely happy childhood

--Anna Quindlet

Ditto #626

To restore the human subject at the center, we must deepen a case history to a narrative or tale; only then do we have a ‘who’ as well as a ‘what,’ a real person, a patient, in relation to disease.

--Oliver Sacks

Ditto #625

All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.

--Pablo Neruda

Ditto #624

Each culture has its own new possibilities of self-expression which arise, ripen, decay and never return.

--Oswald Spengler

Ditto #623

The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.

--Ward Cunningham