Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Henry James

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Harry Browne

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

Anna Paquin

Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the darkness it creates. the soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness

Victor Hugo

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

Benjamin Mays

I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

Ani DiFranco

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Barbara Bush

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

Terry Pratchett

The struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompting is the greatest challenge of all. His conditioning has been so powerful that it has all but destroyed his ability to be self-aware.

Herb Goldberg

The victor belongs to the spoils.

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

Carly Rae Jepsen