If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.

Tony Campolo

I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.

Ursula Andress

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

William Randolph Hearst

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

William Gurnall

Doing a little work around the house. I put fake brickwallpaper over a real brick wall, just so I'd be the only onewho knew. People come over and I'm gonna say, Go ahead, touchit... It feels real.

Steven Wright

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

George Orwell

For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.

Virginia Woolf

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Hilaire Belloc

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

Gary Locke

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

Kim Kardashian

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

Vince Cable

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Stephen Kendrick