I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

Thomas Carlyle

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Geraldine Brooks

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

Madonna

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must transcend the illusion that money or power has any bearing on our worthiness as children of God.

Steve Maraboli

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny it is the political defense of women hating.

Andrea Dworkin

The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

Ronald Reagan

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

Lorna Luft

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

Neil Gaiman

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Lawrence Durrell

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out whatÂ’s next.

Steve Jobs