Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Laurence Sterne

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror -- and they last longer.

David Lloyd George

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

Stephen King

I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

Samantha Barks

The funniest line in English is Get it? When you say that, everyone chortles.

Garrison Keillor

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

Karl Rove

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.

Gerald R. Ford

When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.

Ella Woodward

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

Tibor Kalman

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Georges Braque

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

I am absolutely convinced of the lack of true scientific evidence in favour of Darwinian dogma. Nobody in the biological sciences, medicine included, needs Darwinism at all. Darwinism is certainly needed, however, in order to pose as a philosopher, since it is primarily a worldview. And an awful one, as George Bernard Shaw used to say.

Raul O. Leguizamon