Queen Elizabeth speaking to the bereaved of 9/11

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

[Javert] halted a few paces in the rear of the mayor's armchair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with eyes cast down…

Paul Eldridge [source?]

A man will die for an idea, provided the idea is not quite clear to him.

George Orwell, Politics and the English Language - six rules for writers

i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

José Esteban Muñoz

Queerness "allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present. The here and now is a prison house. …We must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds," he added. "Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality for another world."