Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

A man who has been bent on it for nearly three score years, who has nurtured it from a tiny, poisonous seed to a living, choking flower. He will see it through, unless you end him first.

Cassandra Clare

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

Paul Ryan

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

Shirley Hufstedler

Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life offered far too little of either, and far too much appalling mediocrity, which he thought hideous.

Lloyd Biggle Jr.

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

Konstantin Stanislavisky

The warlock's gaze, on the flames, was remote and distant, as if he were looking back into the past. Simon couldn't help but remember what Magnus had said to him once, about living forever:Someday you and I will be the only two left.

Cassandra Clare

Anthony Carthew (ITN): And, I suppose, in love? Lady Diana Spencer: Of course! Charles, Prince of Wales: Whatever 'in love' means.

Charles, Prince of Wales

Let's make sure history never forgets the name... Enterprise

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.

Josie Maran

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

Steven Wright