Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.

When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.

Michael Isenberg

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

Emily Blunt

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

John Ruskin

If sex were all, then every trembling handCould make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

Wallace Stevens

Two million years from now the scientists can start a row by claming that the creatures of that period descended from us.

Source Unknown

The progress that's made... in any argument or in any discussion is by confrontation. That's a dialectical fact. People say oh let's have less heat and more light, fatuously. There's only one source of light. It happens to be heat.

Christopher Hitchens

If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

RuPaul

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

Jose Rizal

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar, particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England.

John Stuart Mill

I hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

Molly Ringwald

The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.

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