Best Quotes (page 116)
![Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote: "For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is..."](/pic/310568/600x316/quotation-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-for-after-all-the-best-thing-one.jpg)
You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our...
Connie Willis
![Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour..."](/pic/310469/600x316/quotation-friedrich-nietzsche-if-thinking-is-your-fate-revere-this-fate.jpg)
![Tom Holt quote: "Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't..."](/pic/310395/600x316/quotation-tom-holt-telling-lies-is-a-bit-like-tiling-bathrooms-if-you.jpg)
Nature loves efficiency, which is very odd for something supposedly working at random. When you drop a ball, it falls straight down without taking any unexpected detours. When two molecules with the potential for bonding meet, they always bond- there is no room for indecision. This expenditure of least energy, also called the law of least effort, covers human beings, too. Certainly our bodies cannot escape the efficiency of the chemical processes goings on in each cell, so it is probable...
Deepak Chopra
it was one of the best meals we ever ate. Perhaps that is because it was the first conscious one, for me at least; but the fact that we remember it with such queer clarity must mean that it had other reasons for being important. I suppose that happens at least once to every human. I hope so. Now the hills are cut through with superhighways, and I can't say whether we sat that night in Mint Canyon or Bouquet, and the three of us are in some ways even more than twenty-five years older than...
M. F. K. Fisher
![William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of..."](/pic/310064/600x316/quotation-william-makepeace-thackeray-good-humor-may-be-said-to-be-one-of.jpg)
Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.
C. S. Lewis