Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

Stephen King

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

E. M. Forster

That's because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Paulo Coelho

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Vivienne Westwood

It was somehow frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

George Orwell

Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood.

Danish proverb

Negative politics have always been around.

Karl Rove

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

Primo Levi

Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.

Emeril Lagasse

Big money is ruining the political system.

Arlen Specter

All the resources we need are in the mind

Theodore Roosevelt