Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Iris Murdoch

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

Desmond Morris

tell all the truth but tell it slant

Emily Dickinson

Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.

Jeremy Lin

I'd rather be right than President.

Henry Clay

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Nigel Farage

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Henry Ward Beecher

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

Tea Leoni

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

Josiah Royce

I am most anxious that in dealing with matters which every Member knows are extremely delicate matters, I should not use any phrase or expression which would cause offence to our friends and Allies on the Continent or across the Atlantic Ocean.

Sir Winston Churchill

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

H. L. Mencken

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

W. Somerset Maugham