At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Alfred Tennyson
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Thomas Jefferson
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
Eugene O'Neill
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
John Green
I knew a girl that was so ugly that... She looks like she came in second in a hatchet fight!
Rodney Dangerfield
As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.
Jose Padilha
I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.
Roger Clemens
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
Henry A. Wallace
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.
Mitch Hedberg
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
Kurt Vonnegut
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
Muqtada al Sadr
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come topeace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and findsuch a blessed sense of rest!
Charles Dickens
Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.
Moustapha Akkad
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway
Why are you worrying about You-Know-Who? You should be worrying about You-Know-Poo- the constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!
J.K. Rowling
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen
The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.
Elisabeth Rohm
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Irving R. Kaufman
You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.
Ronald Reagan
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
Willie Nelson
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
I don't think time matters much if you're a Breaker.
Stephen King
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
George Washington
But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.
Mark Ruffalo
One day it just clicks... You realize what's important and what isn't. You learn to care less about what other people think of you and more about what you think of yourself. You realize how far you've come and you remember when you thought things were such a mess that they'd never recover. And then you smile. You smile because you are truly proud of yourself and the person you've fought to become.
Steve Maraboli
She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Rupert Murdoch
Half a truth is better than no politics.
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
Henry David Thoreau
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
Harold MacMillan
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Douglas William Jerrold
We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.
Mike Johanns
The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.
Daniel Yergin
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