Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

Gina Carano

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

G. M. Trevelyan

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.Another version:A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

Ralph Fiennes

You have to believe in it to get it...

Nora Roberts

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life out of them, molding them into money.

Rabindranath Tagore

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

Harold Pinter

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

Robert Collier

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

Fabrice Luchini

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Louisa May Alcott

Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot