If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

Ben Affleck

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room. A man wealthy enough for life's needs would never leave home to go to sea or beseige some fortress if he knew how to stay at home and enjoy it...

Blaise Pascal, Pense

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Mark Twain

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Will Durant

For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay.

William Giraldi

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you.

Daniel Quinn

New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.

Robert Asprin

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

Henrik Ibsen

We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

Bob Cousy

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Martin Fleischmann

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

Chuck Grassley