One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound...

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

Plato

The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones.

Naveen Jain

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

Lord Longford

I can't tell someone that their dreams are impossible.

Paulo Coelho

Even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't reallychange the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Stephen Chbosky

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Johann von Goethe

The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

Ian Mcewan

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

Ehud Olmert

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Michael Fassbender

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

David Nicholls

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

Claude Chabrol