Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

Hannah Arendt

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

Jeb Bush

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

William R. Alger

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

Carlos Fuentes

Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.

Lewis H. Lapham

Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.

Eric West

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

Robert Fritz

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

William J. Clinton

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.

Gamaliel Bradford

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Leigh Hunt

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Cassandra Clare

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

Justin Cronin