Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

Hart Crane

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

Peter Davison

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

Ambrose Bierce

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

Ed Gillespie

You ask can we ever trust the Bear?... I will give you several answers at once. The first is no, we can never trust the Bear. For one reason, the Bear doesn

John Le Carr, The Secret Pilgrim

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

C. S. Lewis

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Ben Affleck

My Fox guys, I love every single one of them.

Condoleezza Rice

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

Loretta Lynn

Force is not a remedy.

John Bright

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Ludwig von Mises

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

Lionel Messi