Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom.

Rico Rodriguez

A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.

Irvin S. Cobb

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

Wentworth Miller

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

James Callaghan

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

David Hockney

All love is lost but upon God alone.

William Dunbar

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Francis Bacon

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Jodi Picoult

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

Dan Quayle

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Jim Rohn