You can definitely become a victim and let people completely destroy your life.

Safety is from God alone.

Anon.

I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

Taylor Swift

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Charles Horton Cooley

The kiss stayed there with no place to go, no sensory reserve that could absorb it and file it away as a common act of intimacy, a thousand times received. He knew what Anna was asking: whether you could love someone without habits.

Nicole Krauss

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

Muqtada al Sadr

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Dwayne Johnson

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

Source Unknown

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

Peter Drucker

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.

Ryan Gosling

I am a mom as well as a senator!

Patty Murray