This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

As it is not proper to cure the eyes without the head, nor the head without the body, so neither is it proper to cure the body without the soul.

Loomis

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

Andre Gide, Les Nouvelles Nourri

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

Gene Tierney

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

Simon Mainwaring

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

Hugh Jackman

I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.

Antonio Banderas

Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony,cynicism, and profundity.

Matt Ridley

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

Christopher Lasch

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Victor Hugo

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

Bernadette Devlin

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

Johnnie Cochran

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

J.K. Rowling