The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

Horatio Nelson

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

Nils-Axel Morner

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

Hilary Swank

Sick of lame ducks, use Cosmic Ordering and your ducks will lay golden eggs.

Stephen Richards

In London, my associates and I planned two great expeditions--that to invade the Mediterranean and later that to cross the Channel. London's hospitality to the Americans, her good-humored acceptance of the added inconvenience we brought, her example of fortitude and quiet confidence in the final outcome--all these helped to make the Supreme Headquarters of the two Allied expeditions the smooth-working organizations they became.

Dwight D Eisenhower, after the d

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Francis Ford Coppola

Official truths are often powerful illusions

John Pilger

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Rollo May

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

P. J. O'Rourke

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw

It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.

Bindi Irwin