We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.

Samuel Johnson

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

Karl Kraus

We're all doing different things and some of the girls are mums, so priorities have changed. But I would love to do something with the Spice Girls again. I know we would have an amazing time.

Emma Bunton

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

Carrie P. Meek

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Andy Rooney

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

Catherine Deneuve

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

Josh Hutcherson

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

Sharon M. Draper

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

Jane Austen

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

Fritz Sauckel