Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do .

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.

Bertrand Russell

At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.

Jose Carreras

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

Lorrie Moore

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

Anthony Weiner

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

Janet Fitch

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

Emma Bonino

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan, Blues for a Red Plan

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people before, they were run by creative people.

Enrique Iglesias

The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.

Alice Walker

If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time.

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