
There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it. —
Tim Howard

Your first kiss is never just a kiss but a beautiful place you get to visit only once. —
Colin Tegerdine

Darkness is dawn not yet born. —
Khalil Gibran

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious. —
Mick Jagger

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws. —
G.K. Chesterton

Disconnecting from one's community is a personal choice, of course, but it ends up having social implications ["The Basement," The Awl, Feb 5, 2015]. —
Ariana Kelly

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. —
Charles De Montesquieu
Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration ... in the very teeth of winter. —
Louise Wilder

The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrels of a shotgun into Nag just behind the hood. —
Rudyard Kipling

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday. —
Charles Spurgeon

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel. —
Harriet Ann Jacobs