None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Aeschylus

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

James Thomson

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Oscar Wilde

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Gertrude Stein

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Erma Bombeck

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Aldous Huxley

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

Oscar Wilde

But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!

Juno Temple

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

Richard Gere

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory thatsomeone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of livingis a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one dayyou look down and see how much pain has eroded.

Jodi Picoult

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.

Kid Cudi