The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

William Falconer

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Fortune and humor govern the world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold S. Geneen

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Rabindranath Tagore

I'm interested in having a relationship with the world that's not my own.

Andrea Riseborough

Cheese runners shouted at it, tried to grab it, and flailed at it with sticks, but the piratical cheese scythed onward, reaching the bottom just ahead of the terrible carnage of men and cheeses as they piled up. Then it rolled back to the top and sat there demurely while still gently vibrating.At the bottom of the slope, fights were breaking out among the cheese jockeys who were still capable of punching somebody, and since everybody was watching that, Tiffany took the opportunity to snatch up Horace and shove him in her bag. After all, he was hers. Well, that was to say she had made him, although something odd must have gone into the mix since Horace was the only cheese that would eat mice and, if you didn't nail him down, other cheeses as well.

Terry Pratchett

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

Barbara Bush

The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement.

Jorge Luis Borges

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

Carol Leifer

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

William Shakespeare

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

Barney Frank