Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Thomas Jefferson

You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and - first of all, it was relief. I was not - there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone.

Patty Hearst

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Philip Pullman

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Thomas Paine

Sestrilla, hafelinaJue amourasestrillaAwou jue selavienaEn patre jueTranslation:Beloved one, little catI love you for all timeIn this timeAnd all others

Christine Feehan

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

Gunther Grass

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

Ann Miller

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

Madeleine Albright

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

Olivia Newton-John

There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.

Giovanni Della Casa