People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

Victoria de los Angeles

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb

I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.

Leonard Boswell

Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes.

Frank Flores

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

James Carville

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Euripides

First deserve then desire.

Proverb

A critic never made or killed a book or a play. The people themselves are the final judges. It is their opinion that counts. After all, the final test is truth. But the trouble is that most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession and therefore are most economical in its use.

Mark Twain

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

Sir Winston Churchill

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

Joseph De Maistre

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

Wallace Stevens

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Carl Gustav Jung