To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don

Karl Kraus, Trans. by Harry Zohn

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

Georg Baselitz

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We both grew so used to each other, so comfortable with the naturalness and ease of our friendship, that we became sloppy about keeping our relationship a secret. It was not that we were physically demonstrative or obviously in love, more that it had become impossible for us to hide our close involvement. We had gradually acquired the unmistakable air of old-love: finishing each other's sentences and speaking to each other with an offhand, presuming intimacy that was eventually noticed.

Kate Kerrigan

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

William Cullen Bryant

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Charles Schumer

Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.

Nile Rodgers

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

Heather Donahue

If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.

John Podhoretz

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson