If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that you've talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.

Patti Stanger

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Lindsey Graham

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

Jane Austen

Art must take reality by surprise.

Francoise Sagan

I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere. You always know what a pessimist is thinking, and if you don

Christopher Orlet, from The Opti

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Thomas Jefferson

I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.

Megan Fox

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

John Cleese

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

Shane Claiborne

Haste is of the Devil.

St. Jerome

The key that unlocks energy is Desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

Earl Nightingale