I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

Laura Miller

It was the last weakness he meant to indulge in; and a man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

George Eliot

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Sam Ewing

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

Giada De Laurentiis

Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to.

Paul Gascoigne

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Russell Lynes

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.cited in The Essays of Montaigne http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/6/0/3600/3600.txt

Saint Augustine of Hippo, De Civ

He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.

Eustachius

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

Betty White

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

Thomas Jefferson