Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

Jock Sturges

Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

William Shakespeare

The melancholy truth was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it

Cecil Woodham Smith

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Wilfrid Heed

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Roger Moore

People want riches; they need fulfillment.

Robert Conklin

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity.

Voltaire

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

Oscar Wilde

In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere

C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy (Lo

None loves the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

Lesley Garrett

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul

William Somerset Maugham