The most pleasant and alluring curve on a woman is the smile

Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

William Hazlitt

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

C. Neil Strait

God had created the world in play.

Sri Ramakrishna

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Bertrand Russell

There is no sorrow like a love denied Nor any joy like love that has its will.

Richard Hovey

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was...

Terry Pratchett

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Ibrahim Babangida

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Erica Jong

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Ulysses S. Grant

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

Lucy Powell

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

William Glasser