If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be better

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

Neil Young

Go away, I'm all right!

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My father is an amazing man.

Sherman Alexie

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

Gustav Stresemann

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

Ray Floyd

The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98 but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.

Simon Greenleaf

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

Billie Jean King

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

Paulo Coelho

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

Mikhail Gorbachev

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

Thomas Frank

Wer ein Theater füllen will, bedient sich der Dramaturgie. Um es zu leeren genügt Ideologie.

Oliver Hassencamp