Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we lose institutions altogether because we are no longer good for them.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

E. M. Cioran

Sometimes my need to love hurts-- myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain...To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live.

Jon Krakauer

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

Louis Freeh

But we should see gratitude in the whole context of life, and ask ourselves that life is changed and empowered by it.

Ted Malloch

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

John Schlesinger

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Gennaro Angiulo

You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.

Michael Steele

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

Rima Fakih

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Immanuel Kant

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

If all of our wishes were gratified, many of our dreams would be destroyed.

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You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

Liz Phair