Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

Florida Scott Maxwell

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

David Duchovny

I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.

Karen Russell

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

John Oldham

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

John Irving

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

George McGovern

The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

Immanuel Kant

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

David Hume

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

Shimon Peres

Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.

Yukio Mishima

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.

Jay London

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

Buckminster Fuller