How strange that the years and ocean between us have brought us closer together.
—Sarra Manning in You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
—George Orwell
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
—Fran Lebowitz
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.
—Cavett Robert
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
—Marie Curie
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
—Eddie Izzard
whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?
—Michel de Montaigne
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
—Paul Harvey
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
—Rebecca West
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
—Hazel Henderson
The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
—Anaïs Nin
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
—Persius
There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen.
—Carlos Fuentes