Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

Georges Bataille

Too bad,Elizabeth. You're Stuck with me.Not for a few decades,not for centuries. You're tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They'll come from me--or no one.

Kresley Cole

Great constitutional provisions must be administered with caution. Some play must be allowed for the joints of the machine, and it must be remembered that legislatures are ultimate guardians of the liberties and welfare of the people in quite as great a degree as the courts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Mrs. Humphrey Ward

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

David Herbert Lawrence

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

Hugh Leonard

All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

Dan Stevens

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

Albert Camus

In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said

Steven Wright

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

Fiona Apple

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Paul Cezanne

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

Tim Tebow