When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

Willie Nelson

Nerd love. It's a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.

Cassandra Clare

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence... but before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg you to scan again that last stanza. What you and I overlooked in our cloud of perversion and nasty objectification was the unrestrained joy of a little girl playing dress-up for the very first time.

Jake Vander Ark

The real saint, Baudelaire pretends to think, is he who flogs and kills people for their own good. His argument will be heard. A race of real saints is beginning to spread over the earth for the purposes of confirming these curious conclusions about rebellion.

Albert Camus

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

Merton Miller

I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Claude LeviStrauss

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

Henry Van Dyke

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Plutarch

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

H. L. Mencken

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney