Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Alexander Chase

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

Ayn Rand

Some people who think that everything is a nail, are down on themselves because they are not a hammer. They tend to deprecate their own unique talents and capacities to use a chisel or a pair of pliers.

Source Unknown

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Germaine Greer

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

Joyce Carol Oates

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Mao Zedong

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

Terry Pratchett

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Charles Baudelaire

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Glen Hansard