Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

Jodi Picoult

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

Michael Palin

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

Alan Greenspan

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

John Owen

We are a conquering race. We must obey our blood and occupy new markets and if necessary new lands.

Albert J. Beveridge

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Jean Baudrillard

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

William Shakespeare

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simone de Beauvoir

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

William Shakespeare

The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.

AV

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

Charles Kettering