Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Sweedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Edith Wharton

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Ronald Reagan

O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you're dead and rotten, either do things worth the writing, or write things worth the reading!

Benjamin Franklin

We must use time creatively.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.

Madeleine Albright

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Jackie Chan

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

Mark Twain

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

Lauryn Hill

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

George Orwell

Good temper is an estate for life.

William Hazlitt