Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

Cathy Freeman

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

John Jay Chapman

A guerra é a forma de Deus en­si­nar ge­o­grafia aos ame­ri­ca­nos.

Ambrose Bierce

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

George Bernard Shaw

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind.

Christopher Hitchens

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.

Igor Stravinsky

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Barack Obama

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

Michelle Obama

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

Aleister Crowley

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

Naomi Wolf

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

Elizabeth Gilbert

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Charles Baudelaire