I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Charles Wright

I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.

Katherine Jenkins

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Scott Alexander

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

Michelle Malkin

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Victor Hugo

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary.

Derek Jarman

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Khalil Gibran

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Peter McWilliams

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Karl Marx