Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

Juan Goytisolo

A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Ambrose Bierce

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

Norodom Sihamoni

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Belief has nothing to do with facts,especially for the unbelievable facts.

Toba Beta

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

Thomas Carlyle

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

George H. W. Bush

It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.

Christina Aguilera

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.

Lawrence Eagleburger

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Naomi Wolf