The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

Anne Bronte

Punctuality is the thief of time

Oscar Wilde

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

John Grisham

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

Jacob Bronowski

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies

I would never discourage anyone from doing what it is in life that they want to do. But I would encourage them to find out the pros and cons of anything they become involved in.

Rita Mero

Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things.

Philip Delaney

I try and maintain a little bit of fitness, man.

Frank Bruno

The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing.

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He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

Nicolas Bentley

My life is a struggle.

Voltaire

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Thomas Kempis