Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus

I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Thomas Carlyle

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

Erica Jong

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

George Soros

Your answer is the logical, coherent answer an absolutely normal person would give: It's a tie! A lunatic, however, would say that what I have around my neck is a ridiculous, useless bit of colored cloth tied in a very complicated way, which makes it harder to get air into your lungs and difficult to turn your neck. I have to be careful when I'm anywhere near a fan, or I could be strangled by this bit of cloth.If a lunatic were to ask me what this tie is for, I would have to say, absolutely nothing. It's not even purely decorative, since nowadays it's become a symbol of slavery, power, aloofness. The only really useful function a tie serves is the sense of relief when you get home and take it off; you feel as if you've freed yourself from something, though quite what you don't know.

Paulo Coelho

Ir j?b?t t?dai vietai, kur? tu atn?c r?pju pilns un p?kš?i - sirds ies?pas no skaistuma...

Imants Ziedonis

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.

Carl Sagan

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Paul R. Scheele

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. Kentucky gone, we can not hold Missouri, nor, as I think, Maryland.

Abraham Lincoln

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

James H. Boren

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

Jean de la Bruyere

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

Philip Seymour Hoffman