It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Pablo Neruda

I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking what to do wit ye once I got ye there. So wee Archie can just go and play at marbles with his bollucks, aye?

Diana Gabaldon

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

George Orwell

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth is whatever you can get away with. No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape.

Greg Egan

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

John C. Maxwell

Trust is a great force multiplier.

Tom Ridge

My dad didn't drive - the only dad I knew who didn't.

Julie Burchill

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'

Mindy Kaling

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Paul De Man

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.

Andrea Arnold