Get up, you useless lump, get up!

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

Kurt Vonnegut

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Orson Scott Card

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory thatsomeone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of livingis a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one dayyou look down and see how much pain has eroded.

Jodi Picoult

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

Tony Blair

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

Wendell Berry

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William Jennings Bryan

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Luther Burbank

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg -- a cozy, loving pair.

Herman Melville

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.

Sean Bean