Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.

In pain is a new time born.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

Quentin Crisp

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Terry Pratchett

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.

Kurt Vonnegut

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

Frank Carlucci

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Baruch Spinoza

And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue they hate the lonesome ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look for that information leaves you powerless. In a society where information is king, none of us can afford that.

Lois Horowitz

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

Richard Eyre

I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. I sometimes struggle against luck, the glory of mastering it makes me master it gaily; whereas I am sometimes surfeited in the midst of good fortune.

Blaise Pascal

If you torture data long enough, it will tell you anything you want !

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