All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself.

Daphne Delacroix

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.

John Frankenheimer

You can lease the peace of mind You bought a mask, I put it on. You never thought to ask me If I wear it when you're gone

Sisters Of Mercy

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.

C.S. Lewis

Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.

Dana Gioia

We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted.

Aesop

Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.

Simon Schama

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

Alice Meynell

Everything yields to diligence

Thomas Jefferson

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

Ron Paul

I used to hear about guys who played saying how difficult it is getting up in the morning, and now I'm experiencing it those same effects.

Terrell Davis