It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

Dakota Fanning

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

Albert Camus

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

Martha Plimpton

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

George Wald

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Michael Ignatieff

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Boothe Luce

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

Charles Stanley

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?

Ernest Hemingway

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.

Joyce Cary

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Khalil Gibran

A fact is like a sack -- it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Luigi Pirandello

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

Martin Feldstein