The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Voltaire

My government will respect the will of the people.

Mwai Kibaki

The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.

Homer W. Smith

Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.

Source Unknown

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Carolyn Heilbrun

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

Woody Allen

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

Source Unknown

A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored.

Imam Ali

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

Jack Dee

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Walter Murch

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

Friedrich Durrenmatt