We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

Even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't reallychange the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Stephen Chbosky

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Robert Burns

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Max Lerner

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

Ray Nagin

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

Monica Lewinsky

Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers ...

Saint Ambrose of Milan

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

David Lloyd George

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Events are influenced by our very great desires.

William James