A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Emma Thompson

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

Mark Twain

What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?

Thomas Carlyle

This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.

Elliot Richardson

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Black as the devil, Hot as hell,Pure as an angel, Sweet as love.

CharlesMaurice de Talleyrand, (o

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last; a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side o

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

Candace Bushnell

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein, Lazarus Long

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

Matthew Lesko

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carol Burnett

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

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