There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

You will never see things as they are; you will only see things as you are.

Shannon L. Alder

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Eric Hoffer

Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you.

Steve Maraboli

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. We should all smile more often.

Steve Maraboli

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Samuel Butler

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

Phyllis McGinley

To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.

S. Tobin Webster

The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Emile M. Cioran

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

William Mcilvanney

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

Mark Boal

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

George Eliot

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

Selma Blair