Patrick O'Brian Quote

And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...

The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.

Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.

A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?