Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

Louis C. K.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

William Hague

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Herodotus

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

Tyrone Power

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

Eric Bana

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Jackie Robinson

People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.

Demetri Martin

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

Iain Banks

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

Georg Simmel

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

Orlando A. Battista

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Thomas Fuller

Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.

Alfred Lord Tennyson