I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

Alexander Pope

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Ninon De L'Enclos

All of this is so insignificant. In the grand scale of things, there have been so many before who have been in this position. I'm just another one. Life is so short. It's like we're already gone, really, in retrospect.

Heath Ledger

Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.

Ron Silver

Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.

Sarah Addison Allen

You're not gay, are you?If I were, I would dress better.

Cassandra Clare

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One cat leads to another.

Ernest Hemingway

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Hillary Clinton

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

Thomas Wolfe

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Jerry Brown

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Abraham Lincoln