Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Stendhal (MarieHenri Beyle)

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

Camille Paglia

An unwise advisor cannot hope to advise wisely.

T.A. Miles

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

Proverb

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Harold MacMillan

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. p. 135.

Bertrand Russell

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Paul McCartney

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bianca Jagger

But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration.

Julius Erving

There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.

Thomas L. Masson

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Jodie Foster

I love you more than depth of the ocean, but I can't let you feel the pain of it...lines from Love Vs destiny....

Atul Purohit