God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

Gerald R. Ford

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Ivo Andric

I'm a bit of a romantic.

Eric Bana

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Konrad Lorenz

She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of her. That she was worth nothing. And still a look from him could make her tremble with mingled hatred and longing. It was like poison in her blood, to which Jem was the only antidote.

Cassandra Clare

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

St. Jerome

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

David Ortiz

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

Frances O'Grady

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

Robert Mugabe

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Mikhail Gorbachev

What a dog I got. I tried to mate her she wants 50 biscuits.

Rodney Dangerfield