Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.

Michael Strahan

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

Alexei Sayle

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

Paul Auster

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Margaret Mead

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Federico Fellini

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Karl Jaspers

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

Melissa Marr

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Soren Kierkegaard

Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.

Orson Scott Card

In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was hideous as evil itself and still as poignant as truth.

Victor Hugo

The tasks are done and the tears are shed.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, New Ever

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

George Eliot