In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

Rodney Dangerfield

Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

Confucius

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Bernard Baruch

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

Mary Beth Whitehead

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Thomas Mann

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

David Wilkerson

Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression.

Terry Pratchett

At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.

Rebecca Wells

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

Sam Trammell

When a man takes an oath...,he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.

Robert Bolt

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

Cate Blanchett