Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

John Dryden

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Samuel Alexander

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

Toby Young

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

Jewel

I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control.

Ronald Reagan

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

Suzanne Fields

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates

He had left home to get away, not to go toward anything. There was no greater freedom than that.

Orson Scott Card

Children always turn to the light.

David Hare

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

Mindy Kaling

Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.

Henry David Thoreau