The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

Richard Pryor

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!

Suzanne Brockmann

Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs,and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure,no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Edmund Burke

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Joseph Cannon

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor

Thomas Carlyle

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

Source Unknown

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

Carlos Santana

First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives.

Robert Crais

To exercise good character daily is to be morally fit for life.

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