You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

Andrew Cuomo

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

Duncan Sheik

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

Jean Dujardin

Though thou loved her as thyself,As a self of purer clay,Tho' her parting dims the day,Stealing grace from all alive,Heartily know,When half-gods go,The gods arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are not the sum of our possessions.

George H. W. Bush

Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.

Tony Hale

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Samuel Smiles

While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.

Dejan Stojanovic