We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Benjamin Disraeli

Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit.

Andrew Matthews

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Jackie Robinson

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Timothy Pina

In the distant past, Muslim doctors advised nervous people to look up at the sky. Forget the tight earth. Imagine that the sky, all of it, belonged to them alone. Crescent, low moon, more stars than the eyes looking up at them. But the sky was free, without any price, no one I knew spoke of it, no one competed for it. Instead, one by one those who could afford it began to sleep indoors in cool air-conditioned rooms, away from the mosquitoes and the flies...

Leila Aboulela

We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

Cynthia Heimel

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

Serge Daney

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

Jesse Eisenberg

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

Oscar Wilde

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H. L. Mencken

We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like 'The Biggest Loser' and even 'Amazing Race.' You learn a lot about the world, it's fun and nobody's interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I'm a huge fan of 'Survivor.'

Alison Sweeney