I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

Shannon Miller

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

Tupac Shakur

Sweep the board with Cosmic Ordering Success.

Stephen Richards

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

Dan Rather

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Source Unknown

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

Marat Safin

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Robertson Davies

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

Christopher Hitchens

Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.

Roopleen

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

Coleman Dowell