My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

Thomas Browne

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Charles de Gaulle

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

Theodore Roosevelt

With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.

Michael Symon

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Anne Lamott

I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

Kid Rock

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

Paul Getty

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.

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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Flannery O'Connor

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Edmund Burke

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be

Bertrand Russell