Dante Alighieri
- The Divine Comedy
The darkest places in Hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis; here one must leave behind all hesitation, here every cowardice must meet its death.
Nikolai Ostrovsky
- How the steel was tempered
Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world - the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
englishclub.com
- Interesting facts about English
This sentence is often used to test typewriters or keyboards: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." A sentence that contains all twenty-six letters of the alphabet is called a "pangram." And "uncopyrightable" is the longest English word in normal use that contains no letter more than once.
William Penn, More Fruits of Solitude
- Harry Potter
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.
Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers
- Harry Potter
Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the haemorrhage none can staunch, the grief, the curse no man can bear. But there is a cure in the house and not outside it, no, not from others but from them, their bloody strife. We sing to you, dark gods beneath the earth. Now hear, you blissful powers underground - answer the call, send help. Bless the children, give them triumph now.
Michael C. Thomsett
- International Business
That there is no secret is the biggest secret of Wall Street - and of any specialized industry. Very little in the financial world is so complex that you cannot grasp it. The fundamentals - as their name implies - are basic and relatively uncomplicated. The only factor complicating financial information is jargon, overly complex statistical analysis and complex formulas that don't convey information any better than straight talk.
