Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Howard Nemerov

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.

Igor Stravinsky

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

Shahrukh Khan

Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

Libba Bray

No one needs a vacation more than the person who just had one.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Groucho Marx

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

Clarence Darrow

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Pablo Neruda

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

Jose Mourinho