To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

Alfred L. Kroeber

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

Valentino Garavani

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Austin O'Malley

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

Iain Duncan Smith

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

Sallust

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known

Charles Dickens

It's sad when people break up.

Pete Townshend

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

Christiane Amanpour

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

Floyd Abrams

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

Jackie Stewart

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone? - Tiffany Aching in

Terry Pratchett

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

George Santayana