You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt...

Jean Rostand

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

Albert Camus

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Rene Daumal

Failure is the path of lease persistence.

Anonymous

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

Richard Cobden

It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.

Peter Hook

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Dorothy Dunnett

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of San

I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff.

Minka Kelly

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

Peter Davison

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

Miguel de Cervantes

It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before.

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