Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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Dostoyevsky on the Love of Humanity
As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually, the more I love humanity.
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Tom Stoppard on Opportunity
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said — no. But somehow we missed it.
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Norman Maclean on Spots of Time
Poets talk about 'spots of time,' but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.
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Laurence Sterne on the Conscience
I own, in one Case, whenever a Man's Conscience does accuse him (as it seldom errs on that Side) that he is Guilty; and, unless in melancholy and hypochondriac Cases, we may safely pronounce upon, that there is always sufficient Grounds for the Accusation. But, the Converse of the Proposition will not hold true.