I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

June L. Trapp

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Diogenes Laërtius

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Camille Desmoulins

It's not necessary to tell all you know... You're not gonna change any one of them by talkin' right. They've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

Harper Lee

Míralo. El rostro de un ángel malicioso y los ojos como el cielo nocturno en el Infierno. Es muy hermoso, y a los vampiros les gusta eso. Y no puedo decir que a mí me moleste. -Magnus sonrió de medio lado-. Cabello negro y ojos azules son mi combinación favorita.

Cassandra Clare

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Edmund Burke

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Enid Bagnold

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

David Brin

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

Roger Goodell

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

Jimmy Carter

Macbeth:If we should fail?Lady Macbeth:We fail?But screw your courage to the sticking place,And we'll not fail.

William Shakespeare

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

Sienna Miller