Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Josef Stalin

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Christopher Morley

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

Max Baucus

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.

Claudette Colbert

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

Howard Nemerov

The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Bertrand Russell

Jen's Mum Will WriteJen's mum writes advertising copy.She specializes in white goods:washing machines, dryers, fridges,freezers, dishwashers.She hates these applianceshulkingin corners,power-hungry and fractious.One day, she will have a wood stove,and she'll write about things that matter-she will write about birth and death,about love and the absence of love,about fathers and children,about mothers and daughters,about lovers and friends.She'll write about the whole goddamnwonderful, awful businessof loving and being loved

Margaret Wild

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.

James Nasmyth

I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked.

Alexis Arguello