When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Helen Rowland

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word Politic, which now for ages has signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

Vivienne Westwood

American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

Hubert Humphrey

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

Frederick William Robertson

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Bob Beamon

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Thomas Hobbes

They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.

Anthony Michael Hall

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Ric Keller

The union of their shared lives could be a masterpiece, even if the colors of one piece clashed with another, even if uneven stitches showed, even if, from time to time, they had to pick out seams, realign the pieces, and sew them back together again. It would not be perfect, but it could be beautiful, if they worked together and persevered.

Jennifer Chiaverini

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Voltaire