We must distinguish between a mood and its intellectual expression. There is no arguing with mood; it can be changed by some fortunate event, or by a change in our bodily condition, but it cannot be changed by argument.

The most important thing in their lives was to have a lawsuit going. It was not a question of winning or losing it, and indeed it was vital to do neither, for otherwise the suit would be over and done with. A lawsuit was part of the personality, if not the only visible sign of it, to such an extent that there was often no real animosity between the litigants, because they both needed each other.

Salvatore Satta

I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.

Robert Frost, quoted in Wall Str

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

Jeffrey Archer

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

Nate Ruess

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

Josiah Royce

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

George Borrow

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And hope is but a dream of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

Doug Coupland

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Oscar Wilde

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

Max McGee

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

Leland Stanford