Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Simone de Beauvoir

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

Greg Rusedski

Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.

Selena Gomez

Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Abraham Lincoln

I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.

Charles Barkley

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

Pearl Buck

Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.

Vernon Howard

We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

Cynthia Heimel

Inexorable facts connect our consciousness with this body that we know; and that not merely as a whole, but the parts of it are connected severally with parts of our brain-action. If there is any similar connexion with a spiritual body, it only follows that the spiritual body must die at the same time with the natural one. Consider a mountain rill. It runs down in the sunshine, and its water evaporates; yet it is fed by thousands of tiny tributaries, and the stream flows on. The water may be changed again and again, yet still there is the same stream. It widens over plains, or is prisoned and fouled by towns; always the same stream, but at last 'even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.' When than happens, no drop of water is lost, but the stream is dead.

William Kingdon Clifford, Lectur

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.

John Cam Hobhouse

A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Mark Twain

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Georges Bernanos