Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don't ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.

Lauren Conrad

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Raymond Chandler

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.

Jose Antonio Viera Gallo

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

William Irwin Thompson

Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

Joseph Joubert

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Thomas Jefferson

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

King Hussein I

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

Andre Rieu

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

Orson Scott Card