Events are influenced by our very great desires.

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Aristotle

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

Ryan White

I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Philip Guedalla

I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me... I'm so excited about that I think it's gonna be very cool.

Juno Temple

The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.

Anthony de Mello

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

George Granville

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

Jonathan Swift

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

Tom Wolfe

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Johann von Goethe

Human history is a Gaian dream.

Terence McKenna