Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

William Congreve

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

Birdy

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

Lorna Luft

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

Leo Durocher

Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.

Joan Jett

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

David R. Brower

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

William Shakespeare

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

Oscar Wilde

I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it.

Cindy Sheehan

I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep.

Angela Kinsey

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

John F. Kennedy

The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.

John O. Brennan