Nothing is so self-sabotaging as having your actions not reflect your goals. Your life is always just waiting for permission to go where you want it to go... to be shaped how you want it to be shaped.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

John Dingell

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

Andre Breton

Life has to be dangerous.

Alain Robert

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Samuel Johnson

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

Todd Gitlin

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Ovid

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

Frederick Sanger

I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!

Muhammad Ali

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

Emeril Lagasse

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

Thomas Carlyle

You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart.

Ashly Lorenzana