Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

Len Wein

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

Jackie Robinson

Ah Life,Thou art a false truth!

Raheel Farooq

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

Calvin Coolidge

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

David Hare

I can't think of a web app I've used lately that can exceed what I know how to do natively on iOS.

Bill Kunz

You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity with its comrades abroad. After all, Saddam's ruling Ba'ath Party consolidated its power by first destroying the Iraqi communist and labor movements, and then turning on the Kurds (whose cause, historically, has been one of the main priorities of the Left in the Middle East). When I first became a socialist, the imperative of international solidarity was the essential if not the defining thing, whether the cause was popular or risky or not. I haven't seen an anti-war meeting all this year at which you could even guess at the existence of the Iraqi and Kurdish opposition to Saddam, an opposition that was fighting for 'regime change' when both Republicans and Democrats were fawning over Baghdad as a profitable client and geopolitical ally. Not only does the 'peace' movement ignore the anti-Saddam civilian opposition, it sends missions to console the Ba'athists in their isolation, and speaks of the invader of Kuwait and Iran and the butcher of Kurdistan as if he were the victim and George W. Bush the aggressor.

Christopher Hitchens

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

Ryan Seacrest

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

E. M. Cioran

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

George Herbert

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. [...] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder than ever.

Suzanne Collins

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Jane Austen