With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.

Benjamin Disraeli

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Elias Canetti

To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'

Rita Rudner

A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.

Carl Gustav Jung

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

Max Lerner

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

Christopher Hitchens

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

Jeff Bridges

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Andre Maurois

One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

Carla Gugino

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

Stella McCartney