There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Mark Twain

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

Jodi Picoult

Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.

Mary Hart

I have no regrets. I've got my health.

Naomi Campbell

He who awaits much can expect little.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.

John Bartholomew Gough

The government of the United States have no idea of paying their debt in a depreciated medium, and... in the final liquidation of the payments which shall have been made, due regard will be had to an equitable allowance for the circumstance of depreciation.

Thomas Jefferson

In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life....Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of affective communication between people.

Leo Tolstoy

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

Ray Comfort

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted.

Terry Pratchett

We can... treat only the geometrical aspects of mathematics and shall be satisfied in having shown that there is no problem of the truth of geometrical axioms and that no special geometrical visualization exists in mathematics.

Hans Reichenbach

The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Count Boytzwnburg