Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the sand in order not to face the evil quanta.

Albert Einstein

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Antonio Porchia

And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.

William Shakespeare

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

Henry A. Kissinger

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Steven Wright

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Karl Marx

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

Maureen O'Hara

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

David Byrne

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned

Thomas Carlyle

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

Jhene Aiko

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Sir Winston Churchill