Expenditures rise to meet income.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Hal Borland

I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.

Thomas Merton

It'a an immense joy to be here today. I have received from millions of male and female Brazilians the most important mission of my life. This fact, beyond myself, is a demonstration of the democratic development of our country because for the first time a woman will rule Brazil.

Dilma Rousseff

It seems to me curious, not to say obscene and thoroughly terrifying, that it could occur to an association of human beings drawn together through need and chance and for profit into a company, an organ of journalism, to pry intimately into the lives of an undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings, an ignorant and helpless rural family, for the purpose of parading the nakedness, disadvantage and humiliation of these lives before another group of human beings, in the name of science, of

James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Fa

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

Josie Maran

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Groucho Marx

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Brendan Francis

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

Oprah Winfrey

We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is my abandonment.

Rock Peter

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Sir Robin Day