He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Bill Wyman

Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody

Bertrand Russell

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Plato

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful in spite of the scar, she's somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with her buzzed hair, like Tobias with the memories of his father's cruelty that he wears like armor, like my mother in her plain gray clothing.

Veronica Roth

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It

J. G. Ballard, interview in M, 1

Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.

Demosthenes

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.

Marion Jones

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Simon Armitage

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who .

Terry Pratchett

You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself.

Pearl Bailey

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.

Ben Irwin