The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals.

Geoff Butler

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Epictetus

No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?

John Barton

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

Richard Rosen

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

John Calvin

All war is deception.

Sun Tzu

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

Paul Krugman

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

Jane Austen

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

Vin Diesel

The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

George Eliot

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

R. D. Laing