My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Chuck Palahniuk

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Walt Disney

Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis, nothing to soil those cathedrals, white marble statues, noble thoughts.

Thomas Pynchon

If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!

Phil Hellmuth

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.

Kevin Mitnick

We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.

Simon Mainwaring

However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld, Ma

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

Ulrich Beck

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Hilaire Belloc

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

Alain de Botton

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

Luigi Pirandello