To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Claude A. Helvetius

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

John Berger

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

John Buchan

There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.

Dietrich Mateschitz

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

Tom Peters

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

C.S. Lewis

Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.

Frank Gaffney

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

Mary Stuart Masterson

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

Oscar Hammerstein II

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

Charles Schumer

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Harold W. Dodds

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson