I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

Alice Meynell

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

Christopher Meloni

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Harriet Martineau

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Ray Kroc

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

Padma Lakshmi

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.

Henry Reed

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Francesco Guicciardini

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Sir Thomas Browne

I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.

John Cleese

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Emile Coue

But out of that silence rose new sounds more appalling still; a strange ventriloquism, of which you could not locate the source, a smothered moan, as if a thousand discords were flowing together into a key-note weird, unearthly, terrible to hear and bear, yet startling with its nearness; the writhing concord broken by cries for help, some begging for a drop of water, some calling on God for pity; and some on friendly hands to finish what the enemy had so horribly begun; some with delirious, dreamy voices murmuring loved names, as if the dearest were bending over them; and underneath, all the time, the deep bass note from closed lips too hopeless, or too heroic to articulate their agony...It seemed best to bestow myself between two dead men among the many left there by earlier assaults, and to draw another crosswise for a pillow out of the trampled, blood-soaked sod, pulling the flap of his coat over my face to fend off the chilling winds, and still more chilling, the deep, many voiced moan that overspread the field.

Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain