The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Barbara Kingsolver

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Margaret Halsey

That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: mere puppets stuck up to spout Shaw.

George Bernard Shaw

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

George Bernard Shaw

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

Virginia Woolf

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

Marilyn Monroe

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Arthur Pine

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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All experience is subjective.

Gregory Bateson

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.

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If oppurtunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Milton Berle