If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

Ernest Hemingway

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.

James Q. Wilson

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.

Saskia de Brauw

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

Paloma Picasso

Choreography is amazing. I'm still a dancer, yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Creative Director. All of these creative elements are brought out of being a dancer. Directing is something that comes out of understanding movement and choreography. Directing movement is directing a dance piece.

Laurieann Gibson

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Bertrand Russell

The student is to read history actively not passively.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

William Hazlitt

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

Patrick Dempsey

I had a girlfriend that was so fat she wore a CROSS YOUR THIGHS bra.

Rodney Dangerfield

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

Tad Williams