And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.

As far as the girls in my grade, it was always kind of an on-and-off thing. When all this came up, it was kind of hard. My guy friends and my family friends have been so amazing and supportive.

Stacie Orrico

Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves

Julian Barnes

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Ama Ata Aidoo

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Terry Hands

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoover

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

George Santayana

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

William Hazlitt

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Walter Lippmann

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.According to: http://www.goethesociety.org/pages/quotescom.htmlthe lines are attributed to John Anster in a 'very free translation' of Faust from 1835See author: W. H. Murray

Johann von Goethe

If it weren't for pickpockets I'd have no sex life at all.

Rodney Dangerfield