Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

Andreas Capellanus

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.

Paul Bettany

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48)

Victoria Moran

That's what I do. I drink and I know things.

Tyrion Lannister

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

LL Cool J

The journey to a thousand stars is not too far a journey in the quest to have true love abiding in a pure heart.

C. JoyBell C.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.

Mario Monti

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

Black Elk

Cheap booze is a false economy.

Christopher Hitchens

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

Emily Mortimer

We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.

Sophie Kinsella