_Quotes

Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment. - Beaumont and Fletcher, The Captain (c. 1609–12; published 1647), Act V, scene 5. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Action

What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world. - Nikolai Berdyaev, in The Beginning and the End (1947) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/End

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. - Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eternity

I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. - Roland Barthes' The New Citroën (1957) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Automobiles_and_transport

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. - Peter De Vries

Great literature, past or present, is the expression of great knowledge of the human heart; great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. ~ Edith Hamilton ~ http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edith_Hamilton

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman. - Theda Bara, a.k.a. "The Vamp", attributed in Leta W. Clark, Women, Women, Women: Quips, Quotes, and Commentary (1977), p. 16 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vampire