Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Imelda Marcos

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

John Ruskin

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Guy Verhofstadt

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

Barbara Boxer

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

H. L. Mencken

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Edgar Allan Poe

The War is over - the rebels are our countrymen again.

Ulysses Simpson Grant, Said to p

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

Neve Campbell

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real

Jacques Barzun

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Edgar Degas

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

Tallulah Bankhead