I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

Susan Faludi

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

Charles Dickens

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

C.S. Lewis

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

Chloe Moretz

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

Norah Jones

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

William Morris Hughes

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

Jerry Saltz

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Oscar Wilde