The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

It takes a son of a bitch to change a habit.

Stephen King

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Erich Fromm

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.

Helen Hunt Jackson

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

Thom Yorke

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

Alanis Morissette

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

Walter Martin

No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.

Jim Fiebig, "United Feature Synd

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Max Beerbohm

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

Donna Tartt