The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

Jack Kevorkian

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

Albert Ellis

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

Thomas Carlyle

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

Jerry Brown

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Simone Weil

God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers

Yiddish Proverb

'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.

Jane Pauley

One is very crazy when in love.

Sigmund Freud

No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.

Ryan Lochte

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle