Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away of moral opprobrium from our memory of Hitler. In another fifty years we may well find ourselves weighed down by a second monstrous dream of pure grandeur to match that of the Emperor. Two men who dared. Two men who were adored. Two men who led with brilliance. Two men who administered fairly and efficiently. Two men who were modest in their own needs but surrounded by lesser beings who profited from their situation and came between the Hero and the people.

I don't have the best dating track record.

Lauren Conrad

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Ben Johnson

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Laura Bush

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

Victoria Beckham

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

Christopher Hitchens

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

John Phillips Marquand

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

General Douglas MacArthur

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

Bryant McGill

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

David Bowie

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.Latin: Neque est ullum certius amicitiae vinculum, quam consensus et societas consiliorum et voluntatum

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Oratio Pr

I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.

Ellen DeGeneres

We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.

Orson Scott Card