Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

Marlo Thomas

As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.

George Tenet

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Walter Savage Landor

The movie business is a big gamble.

Jackie Chan

She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in the process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side o

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

Terry Pratchett

Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.

Jim Rogers

If my dream comes true, Is truth then only a dream?

Rob Bignell

We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.

Ronald Reagan

AnatasiaYou Are My More My Love, My LifeChristian

E.L. James

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Harvey S. Firestone