On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

Jean Baudrillard

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

Louis C. K.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Andre Gide

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.

Hassan Nasrallah

They are as much for Mars, as for Mercury; as well qualified for war, as for business.

Source Unknown

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

Iain Duncan Smith

The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them

George Bernard Shaw

The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

William Hazlitt

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

Oswald Chambers

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

Anthony Trollope

You only stop learning when you quit.

Ruud Gullit