The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.Douglas Coupland
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.Bertrand Russell
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.Bertrand Russell
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.Epicurus
Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.Lee Kuan Yew
The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.J. K. Rowling