But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

Never assume the obvious is true.

William Safire

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Eric Hoffer

The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding.

Cat Deeley

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Jean de la Bruyere

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Lord Buckley

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

Source Unknown

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.

Susannah York

We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

Source Unknown

The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.

Dinaw Mengestu

It's funny to be a critic.

Leslie Fiedler