Why are there five syllables in the word monosyllabic?

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

Scott Brown

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

Jose Mourinho

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

Azar Nafisi

What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home.

Ken Hammond

A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

Source Unknown

I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.

Jack White

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

Plato

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Thomas Carlyle

The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

Ludwig Feuerbach

We are built with a passion in our heart for the things we are meant to do.

Lights Poxlietner

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

Muhammad Iqbal

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Richard Bach