If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Strength of character isn't always about how much you can handle before you break, it's also about how much you can handle after you've broken.

Robert Tew

And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.

Clare Short

Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sure she'd already spun.

Darrell Drake

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

Karl Marx

After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

William R. Alger

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Eric Hoffer

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

Pope John Paul II

It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.

Serena Williams

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

John Malkovich

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

Colin Hay

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Isadora Duncan