Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

The stone age came to an end not for lack of stones. And the oil age will come to an end not for lack of oil.

Sheikh Yamani

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

Alastair Campbell

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men

William Shakespeare

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

Judd Gregg

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through whichonly a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

Paulo Coelho

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything.

Andy Warhol

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

George L. Morrisey

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

Heinz R. Pagels

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

Nicholas Sparks