Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Ovid

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Wendell Phillips

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Finley Peter Dunne

This is what is meant by the phenomenology of the science-making process: Self-observation always leads us to an existential point about the metaphysics of experience, and it is almost always a transforming moment. (p. 286)

Eugene Taylor

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

Stafford Cripps

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

Douglas Coupland

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Anita Brookner

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

Steven Wright

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Washington Irving

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Arthur Bloch

People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.

Sade Adu