Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

Bonnie Hunt

An essential condition of listening to God is that the mind should not be distracted by thoughts of resentment, ill-temper, hatred or vengeance, all of which are comprised in the general term, the wrath of man.

R. V. G. Tasker

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.

George Orwell

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

Barack Obama

Being myself is the one thing that people would want to see out of me, they don't want to see me being the fake person that the world wants me to be, all they want to see is the real me, the real person that is inside of me.

erica maples

In a bet there is a fool and a thief.

Anonymous

I went to the doctor because I swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

Rodney Dangerfield

Russia has two generals in whom she can confide -Generals Janvier and Fevrier

Nicholas I

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Jean Cocteau