Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

Donald Rumsfeld

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Jean Rostand

The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

Samuel Johnson

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Bruce Lee

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

Shirley Manson

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Boris Becker

So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

Richard Dean Anderson

Everyone was tired with the old style politicians and their flowery rhetoric. I just told them there are tough times ahead, but that they would be less tough with me in charge.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

The inventor of the Xerox machine will, I am sure, find a special place reserved for him on one of the inner circles of Dante's Inferno.

Nicholas Goodison

Happiness lies first of all in health.

George William Curtis

When you leave,weary of me,without a word I shall gently let you go.

Kim Sowol

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Paul J. Meyer