I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

Sir Philip Sidney

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

Petra Nemcova

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the

Scott Adams

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

G. K. Chesterton

And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.

Michael Bloomberg

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

Venus Williams

The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Called a blind date to set up a meeting at a restaurant. Isaid, I'll be the one in the leather jacket. She said, I'llbe the one drinking sake. Turned out it was one of thosebiker sushi places. We never met.

Steven Wright

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Joseph Prince

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

Joseph Addison