Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Washington Irving

My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.

Orson Scott Card

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Victor Hugo

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

Monica Lewinsky

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage

Elizabeth Taylor

Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

Cassandra Clare

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

English Proverb

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

Kevin Spacey

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

Will Rogers

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Mahatma Gandhi

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --

Emily Dickinson

I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

R. Lee Ermey