I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

Glen Hansard

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Joseph Conrad

True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that.

Amy Davis

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Aeschylus

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

Jeff Goodell

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Martha Gellhorn

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

Zac Efron

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.

Joanna Southcott

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

George Carlin

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Mario Balotelli

The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.

Jacob Getlar Smith