Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Ray Bradbury

Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.

Ambrose Bierce

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

John Boehner

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

Michael S. Harper

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

Mahmoud Abbas

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

Mitt Romney

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Frank Dane

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

Shirley MacLaine

Remember that Children and Fools want every thing because they want Wit to distinguish: and therefore there is no stronger Evidence of a Crazy Understanding, than the making too large a Catalogue of things necessary, when in truth there are so very few things that have a right to be placed in it.

George Savile

The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence

Anirban Bose

She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.

Laurie Halse Anderson