Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Charles Swindoll

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

Connie Willis

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Woodrow Wilson

I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

Billie Jean King

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.

Charles Sumner

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

Hannah More

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

Halle Berry

The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle

Arthur Quinn, Figures of Speech,

I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.

Julie Doucet

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

He is the very pineapple of politeness!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan