Admiration spoils all from infancy. Ah! How well said! Ah! How well done! How well-behaved he is! etc.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Aristotle

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

Ellie Kemper

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

My relationship to gravity is permanently altered.

Steven Jesse Bernstein

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

Rupert Murdoch

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

Steven Moffat

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

Brooke Burke

No matter how long you have been waiting, the man God has for you will surpass your expectations. You will meet him when god says so. Not a minute early, not a moment later.

Michelle McKinney Hammond

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Mark Twain

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

Nancy Pelosi