What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Gore Vidal
What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
Bertrand Russell
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
Tony Blair
The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.
John Leonard
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw
The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael Korda
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
Milton Friedman
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Natalie Portman
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Robert Orben
We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.
John Mica
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Norman O. Brown
The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen to twitch and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers in a harpsichord when the notes are struck. Perhaps it was the Truth feebly endeavouring to leap to his lips. If so, it never reached them.
Charles Dickens
It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.
Michael Pitt
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Pogo
It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
Moshe Dayan
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves
I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.
Krista Allen
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
Madeleine Albright
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Washington Irving
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools.
Marshall McLuhan
Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
Stephen King
When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.
Khloe Kardashian
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
Adam Smith
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
Kofi Annan
I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.
Ariel Sharon
And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue they hate the lonesome ones.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
Maria Mitchell
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living.
Terry Pratchett
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
Anthony Collins
I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.
Josh Brolin
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
Charles de Lint
The champagne had been donated by one of Gus's doctors - Gus being the kind of person who inspires doctors to give their best bottles of champagne to children.
John Green
I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.
Scott Brown
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia
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