Feeling depressed? Lift your chin up, pull your shoulders back, raise your arms, walk with a spring in your step, smile, and very soon your spirits will rise, just like your posture. - Jarod Kintz I am a Stormdancer! Mere metal is nothing compared with the power of a storm." Kade made his voice boom and spread his arms wide. His eyes sparked with humor. "I. Am. Invincible." "Until a happy wind blows," I said. "Curse those sunny days." "The bane of your existence." "The scourge of society." "The downfall of decency." "And boring, too. Nothing like a good gale to put a spring in your step." Kade grinned. - Maria V Snyder

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! - Mark Twain If she'd been lame or a hunchback I'd have probably fallen in love with her even more... Yes, it was a sort of spring fever. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I got my spring cleaning done early this year. I did it over the summer. - Jarod Kintz He had to get inside. It was essential that he know everything, the routes she took, her schedule, and the lay of the land. The silver moon glowed overhead, mocking him. Somewhere in the trees an owl hooted its laughter at his failure. Randy--from Spring Cleaning--Coming Summer 2012 - Brandi Salazar Terri had already gotten her panties into a bunch just from one little phone call, so he knew coming at her too much too fast would be more trouble than it was worth. He couldn't exactly beat her into submission, not right away anyway. Although he did enjoy seeing her get all riled up. Nothing tugged at a man's heartstrings like a pair of mascara smeared eyes. Randy from Spring Cleaning-- Coming Summer 2012 - Brandi Salazar

It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down. - Haruki Murakami Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress. - Chuck Palahniuk So spring break consisted of seven fun-filled days cooped up in the house with Jeffrey, who was grounded because he'd won the Regional Wrestling Championships - Cynthia Hand Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie! - John Hughes Back and forth...

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. - Robertson Davies Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul. - Arthur Conan Doyle There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end. - Criss Jami

in the summer, it's short greens and tall greens and sometimes a smudge of other colors. In winter, it's squinty white,and sometimes deep when it looks flat. In early spring and late fall, the town gets brown and black, like an old photograph. - Blue Balliett However, the path of God is unknown and deep are the waters. Often do we see what is pleasing, take a sudden turn of providence, that deprives even the most Godly of their happiness. We should not fear theses changes and trust that all things work for the greater good. From "A Noble French Lady" by Nancy B. Brewer to be releases early spring of 2012 - Nancy B Brewer Some changes occur suddenly like a brilliant flash of lightning striking across a dark sky. These changes are stunning, exciting but can be quickly forgotten. Other changes happen slowly, gradually, like a flower blooming in early spring, each day unfurling its petals another fraction of an inch towards the warm, nurturing sun. These changes are as...

From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move. - Haruki Murakami With the coming of spring, I am calm again. - Gustav Mahler

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing. - King Abdullah Ii No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one. - King Abdullah Ii Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. - Eric Alterman None of us is certain about the outcome of the Arab Spring. - Kelly Ayotte I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival. - John Bolton The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring. - Paul Wolfowitz The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened...