People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.

Christopher Meloni

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Erma Bombeck

Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

G. K. Chesterton

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

Virginia Woolf

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

Henny Youngman

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

Virginia Woolf

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Marquis de Sade