I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success, of any kind, as perseverance. It overcomes almost everything.

John D. Rockefeller

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Lord Longford

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

Proverb

The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?

John Green

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Titus Livius

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

Jean Racine

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Edwin Louis Cole

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

Katherine Heigl

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

Pam Grier

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Douglas MacArthur

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Mao Zedong

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

John Dickinson