All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.

Thomas Frank

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Nick Richardson

When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies, are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.

Henry Fielding

Life is not fair get used to it.

Bill Gates

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Paul Getty

Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.

John Greenleaf Whittier

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Frank Crane

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Jodi Picoult

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

Owen Meredith