The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Muhammad Hijazi

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

Friedrich Nietzsche

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

Satchel Paige

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Virginia Woolf

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

Dido Armstrong

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

Marilyn Ferguson

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

Henry Miller

Beauty is the advertisement of the existence. Its purpose is to make you hold the existence tightly.

Mehmet Murat ildan

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Murray Kempton