If you give them enough of yourself, they might realize that you're bleeding out from the pieces of you you keep giving them, and maybe give you something back. But then they don't. So you sit there. Less than you were.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Golda Meir

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

Joaquin Phoenix

I am participating in the evolution of inspired action.

Steve Maraboli

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Jesus Christ

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

Andrea Dworkin

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

Paul McCartney

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

Gary Bauer

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Tom Brokaw

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Fran Lebowitz

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

William James