My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
Christopher Hitchens
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
Harold MacMillan
Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian
The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.
Will McDonough
Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.
Victor Hugo
Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.
Paul Davies
Whatever it takes to find the real you, don't be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.
Stephen Richards
Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.
Jennifer Granholm
As if there were safety in stupidity alone
Henry David Thoreau
From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.
Heath Ledger
There are no ordinary people.
C.S. Lewis
For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.
I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.
Todd Barry
The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
Demi Moore
I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.
Christopher Nolan
There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.
Lauren Conrad
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
Graham Greene
The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.
Orson Scott Card
The intolerable compliment of suffering
My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
Ben Barnes
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
A. N. Wilson
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.
Neil Gaiman
At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 magnum.
Susana Martinez
But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
Carol Burnett
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself
Aristotle
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement
Thomas Jefferson
One can observe that such changes in the breath are the direct result of your reaction to thoughts. If you can simply dismiss the thoughts by giving them no value then the breathing will find its own medium and become subtle.
Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not
Plato
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Henri Poincare
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
John Masefield
I love romantic poetry.
Richard Dawkins
I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!
Candace Cameron Bure
A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
Mika Waltari
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree
Oscar Wilde
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
Charles de Secondat
But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.
Hope Davis
The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.
David Lyons
Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Samuel Johnson
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Nikolai Gogol
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