Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

Hannah Arendt

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

John le Carre

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

Nate Silver

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

Liza Minnelli

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Napoleon Hill

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Woodrow Wilson

You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.

Rabbi Harold Kushner, The Lord I

Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I don't think you need religion.

Terry Jones

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Susan Sontag

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II

William Shakespeare