Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.

Cassandra Clare

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

Idina Menzel

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Tacitus

Remember that in the end, the universe responds to our emotions, not to our words.

Stephen Richards

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Nelson Mandela

There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its national pastime pedestal in less than fifteen years.

Hunter S. Thompson

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Walter Scott

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalber

Here I sit like a brainless robot writing the uncensored, chaotic, evil thoughts springing about in my temperamental female brain.

Coco J. Ginger

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

Only Americans can hurt America.

Dwight D Eisenhower