The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.

Mary Elizabeth Hewitt

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

Nate Silver

Most of us have a soundtrack running in the background of our lives. I access that soundtrack when I write.

Robin M. Helm

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Johann von Goethe

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

Phillip E. Johnson

I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.

Becky Sharp

All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above medesigns synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats. The lady acrossthe hall tried to rob a department store... With a pricinggun... She said, Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'mmarking down everything in the store.

Steven Wright

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

Paulina Rubio

Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.

Lord Chesterfield

Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes -- the nations in which the government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government.

Amos R. E. Pinochet

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Robert Kiyosaki

With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

Osho