It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Sophocles

Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.

Cassandra Clare

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Christopher Hitchens

Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.

Wolfgang Puck

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Brian Tracy

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,Love and desire and hate:I think they have no portion in us afterWe pass the gate.They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for a while, then closesWithin a dream.(the poem

Ernest Dowson, Vitae Summa Brevi

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

Sir Winston Churchill

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Louis Kahn

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

M. Night Shyamalan

Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.

Paulo Coelho

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

George Orwell