I don't wish her any ill will. I think it's very hard for everyone to participate in the illusion she presents as her truth

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Simone Weil

The universe is always conspiring to help build a better you and to bring you to the roads of joy and happiness where you will truly enjoy your life. Question is are you doing all you need to do to help meet it?

Timothy Pina

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

Bette Midler

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

Cornelius Nepos

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Marcel Proust

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Chinese Proverb

Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.

Sir Walter Scott

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making The Appaloosa a good movie.

Dylan McDermott

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

Gerry Adams

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.

Aldous Huxley, The Fifth Earl of

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Thomas Jefferson

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

John Keats