Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with our future.

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

George Washington

I will listen to a beautiful person much more quickly than a plain person, and I have to learn to be nice to people who are not attractive looking.

Beatrice Wood

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

Kevin Spacey

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving

Bernard Meltzer

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Jean Baudrillard

I had a great time making the last movie, 'Eclipse.' We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930's. But I was waiting for 'Breaking Dawn' because I love the relationship Rosalie has with Jacob and the rest of her family and Bella. She also provides comic relief.

Nikki Reed

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Joe Biden

When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.

Alexander Hamilton

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

John Harvey Kellogg

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

John Locke

What you see is what you see

Frank Stella

A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Yiddish Proverb