The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Cristiano Ronaldo

If you're being mistreated, lied to or cheated on then it's time to save yourself and move on. Remember, it's not your status that makes you happy, it's you that does.

Robert Tew

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

Lord Chesterfield

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

Maya Lin

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Joseph Farrell

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Mahatma Gandhi

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a home might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

Emily Post

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Alice Walker

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Helen Hayes

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

Drew Carey