The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.

Jennifer Granholm

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Mark Twain

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

Martha Beck

?Kalganov ran back into the front hall, sat down in a corner, bent his head, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry. He sat like that and cried for a long time--cried as though he were still a little boy and not a man of twenty... 'What are these people, what sort of people can there be after this!' he kept exclaiming incoherently, in bitter dejection, almost in despair. At that moment he did not even want to live in the world. 'Is it worth it, is it worth it!' the grieved young man kept exclaiming.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech de

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature...

George Eliot

Everyone has an opinion of who you are and what your relationship is about, things that you've done or didn't do in your relationship - and it's just all crap, really. Things that are written about it are all crap.

Jessica Alba

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

Jerry Seinfeld

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Jodi Picoult

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

Stella McCartney

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy