If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

Muqtada al Sadr

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Bronte

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing.

Dave Chappelle

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Mao Zedong

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.

Toba Beta

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.

Alison Larkin

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

Walter Jon Williams

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Paul Farmer

The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differentiated from the rest of the world, so that his identity and autonomy are always in question.... He may not possess an over-riding sense of personal consistency or cohesiveness. He may feel more insubstantial than substantial, and unable to assume that the stuff he is made of is genuine, good, valuable. And he may feel his self as partially divorced from his body.

R. D. Laing, The Divided Self, 1

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Barbara Walters

Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.

Captain J. G. Stedman