Judgment is forced upon us by experience

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

Christopher Hitchens

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

Ben Stiller

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

John Newcombe

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Bella Abzug

Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

Milan Kundera

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Interpretation

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

Robert Herrick

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Tom Hooper

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

Stephen Chbosky