If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.

Aldous Huxley

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Isaac Watts

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

Bill Cosby

I don't think you can question your instinct you should always trust it.

Andrea Arnold

Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began.

Francine Rivers

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Samuel Johnson

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

Jet Li

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

Clifford Geertz

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Mao Zedong

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

James Sanborn