The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused no desire in him, indeed he barely looked at it. What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Ibrahim Babangida

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Robert Millikan

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

Source Unknown

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.

John Erskine, The Complete Life

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

Rob Thomas

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

W. Somerset Maugham

The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In the long run she only says Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me. And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anthony Anderson

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Dean Kamen

No, no! said the Queen. Sentence first - verdict afterwards.

Lewis Carroll