The bad apples are at the top. They enjoy murdering the innocent people.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Theodor Adorno

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care

William Shakespeare

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Arthur Rimbaud

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time

Virginia Woolf

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Theresa

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

Norah Jones

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

George Carlin

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

John P. Kotter

He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

Christopher Hitchens

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli