We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

Mike Myers

Why shoudn't truth be stranger than fiction Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities.

Mark Twain

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

Steffi Graf

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Ambrose Bierce

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Florence King

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Benjamin Franklin

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

H.R. Haldeman

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

Shirley Henderson

Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.

Nancy Pelosi

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

Michael Ondaatje

Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.

English Proverb