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"The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine." »Martha Beck
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"Kirk Douglas: mine hit the ground first.
John Wayne: mine was taller." »John Wayne
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"Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours it is mine, and if it is mine it is yours. We must do it together-or be cast aside together." »Howard Hewlett Clark
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"There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things." »Robert Lynd
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"I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril." »Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
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"The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The world is content with setting right the surface of things." »John Henry Newman
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"Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle." »G. K. Chesterton
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"Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery." »Paul Valery
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"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." »Michael Caine
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"Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience." »Randolph Bourne
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"Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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""Time is the measurement of the rotation of the Earths surface around the Circumference of it's Axis"" »Tom Zegan
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"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." »Jacob Braude
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"Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth." »Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful.
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"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'" »Carl Gustav Jung
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"A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth." »Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful
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"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine." »William Shakespeare
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"What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours." »Titus Maccius Plautus
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"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."" »Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
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"Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself." »Franz Xavier Kroetz
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"Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance." »Graham Clarke
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"This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." »Aldous Huxley
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"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine." »Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
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"Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye." »Anonymous
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