Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly thought that the Bosnian cause was worth fighting for and worth defending, but I could not take myself seriously enough to imagine that my own demise would have forwarded the cause. (I also discovered that a famous jaunty Churchillism had its limits: the old war-lover wrote in one of his more youthful reminiscences that there is nothing so exhilarating as being shot at without result. In my case, the experience of a whirring, whizzing horror just missing my ear was indeed briefly exciting, but on reflection made me want above all to get to the airport. Catching the plane out with a whole skin is the best part .) Or suppose I had been hit by that mortar that burst with an awful shriek so near to me, and turned into a Catherine wheel of body-parts and (even worse) body-ingredients? Once again, I was moved above all not by the thought that my death would 'count,' but that it would not count in the least.

Christopher Hitchens

Call me crazy - I love elk meat!

Zoe Saldana

No, I don't know why Bobby and Peter Farrelly bothered with a 'Three Stooges' movie, either. But if they're anything like some men I know, their love for Moe, Larry, and Curly (and an assortment of fourth bananas) is deep, abiding, and unembarrassable. In other words: How could the Farrellys not?

Wesley Morris

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

Paul Merton

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

George Eliot

How would your life be different ifYou stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the dayYou stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others

Steve Maraboli

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.

Proverb

If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault. We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.

Orson Scott Card

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Thomas Aquinas

What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

Jean Rostand

I hate the feeling of falling - I'll never jump from a plane - but I love a good roller coaster. Go figure!

Ricki Lake