First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Xenophon

I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.

Eleanor Roosevelt

For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

Christina Rossetti

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Susan Sontag

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S. Truman

Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like...having rock-star problems.''Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.

Cassandra Clare

Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

Robertson Davies

Where ambition ends happiness begins.

Source Unknown

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

Jan de Bont

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

Brooks Atkinson

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.

Dave Brubeck