It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Mason Cooley

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Chuck Palahniuk

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty

Samuel Johnson

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

Wayne Calloway

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

Kris Allen

We are none of us infallible -- not even the youngest of us.

William Hepworth Thompson

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

James A. Baldwin

No one root is responsible for the existence of a tree.

Melanie MacSmiley

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Arthur Ashe

It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war without end.' I never saw the point of this plaintive objection. The war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless war. In protean forms, it is fought and refought in every country and every generation. In bin Ladenism we confront again the awful combination of the highly authoritarian personality with the chaotically nihilist and anarchic one. Temporary victories can be registered against this, but not permanent ones. As Bertold Brecht's character says over the corpse of the terrible Arturo Ui, the bitch that bore him is always in heat. But it is in this struggle that we develop the muscles and sinews that enable us to defend civilization, and the moral courage to name it as something worth fighting for.

Christopher Hitchens

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

Henry Miller

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

George Bernard Shaw