In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

George Eliot

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Benjamin Franklin

She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts.

Virginia Woolf

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

Ian Mcewan

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

Thornton Wilder

The functions of an executive are to create and enforce policies rather than working out problems resulting from such policies.

Louis F. Musil

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Maude Adams

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Campbell Scott

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

Ray Manzarek

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die.

Soren Kierkegaard