If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.

Raymond Chandler

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Josef Stalin

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Benjamin Disraeli

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

Kerry Washington

Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

J. C. Watts

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

Frank A. Clark

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

Boris Johnson

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.

Thomas Carlyle

We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Rufus Choate

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

Mortimer Adler

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

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