It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Ben Jonson

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Yiannis Stournaras

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

Vince Cable

The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

William Styron

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

Amy Vanderbilt

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Richard Harding Davis

Who could believe in prophecies of Daniel or of Miller that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds?

Henry David Thoreau

Globalization is a fact of economic life.

Carlos Salinas

I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.

Alison Sweeney

It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.

Bill Shuster

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Colin Powell

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

Emmitt Smith