The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Anne Lamott

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Marilyn Monroe

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Jeff Goodell

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

Mike Johanns

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

L. P. Jacks

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

H. L. Mencken

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Winston Churchill

It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

Publilius Syrus

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Richard Rorty

And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with him that I want to give him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity. And then right after I give him the honor and glory, I always try to give my teammates the honor and glory. And that's how it works because Christ comes first in my life, and then my family, and then my teammates.

Tim Tebow

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Karl Von Clausewitz