The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

Trevor McDonald

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

C. S. Lewis

I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.

Coco Lee

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.

George Saunders

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

Billy Sunday

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Rainer Maria Rilke

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

Woody Allen

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry and where a man possesses these, although the bis.

John Wycliffe

...I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk...

John Geddes

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

Paul McCartney

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Johnny Carson