How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Thomas Carlyle

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus

Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. this is not the case.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

Neil Gaiman

I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.

Elisha Cuthbert

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or the other of these two sentiments. Not all contradictions resolve into temporal change of belief or desire.

Raymond Geuss

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

Judy Holliday

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.

Barry White

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Les Brown

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Hannah Arendt