A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

Ernest Hemingway

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Henning Mankell

Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

Johann von Goethe

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer, as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

William James

Liberals fought poverty and poverty won.

Ronald Reagan

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

Tammy Wynette

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity the sound achieved by the pig.

Alfred Hitchcock

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

Paulo Coelho

Real love is a humble receptivity of a silent heart that is prepared to melt and merge

Banani Ray

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

Black Kettle