For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, Where? What? and turn away.

Christina Rossetti

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

George Gurdjieff

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Mark Twain

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

Rush Limbaugh

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

Patrick Rothfuss

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

Jennifer Ellison

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.

Oscar Wilde

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Josh Billings