Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

David Sedaris

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

George Santayana

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

Henry Reed

It is very wearing to be good

Mark Twain

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Thomas Huxley

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

Mohammed Morsi

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.

Illeana Douglas

Who is unhappy at having only one mouth? And who is not unhappy at having only one eye? Probably no man ever ventured to mourn at not having three eyes. But any one is inconsolable at having none.

Blaise Pascal

We're all doing different things and some of the girls are mums, so priorities have changed. But I would love to do something with the Spice Girls again. I know we would have an amazing time.

Emma Bunton

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Oscar Wilde