There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

H. Rider Haggard

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

Margaret Spellings

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

William Irwin Thompson

I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something

Jamie Zeppa

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

Julie Burchill

Half of writing history is hiding the truth

Joss Whedon

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Alfred E. Smith

You must spend money to make money.

Plautus

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Tom Harkin

I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.

Emily Deschanel

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

Sebastian Vettel