Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

David Suzuki

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

Candice Bergen

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

Helena Bonham Carter

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

Edward Dahlberg

When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.

Ashton Eaton

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...

Martin Luther King Jr.

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

Erwin Rommel

My family is more important than my party.

Zell Miller

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.

John Ralston Saul, The Unconscio

The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

G.K. Chesterton

The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.

Ogden Nash