The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses

It looks like the future's really bright.

Michael P. Anderson

The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries

George Bernard Shaw

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

Macaulay Culkin

Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.

Cassandra Clare

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

Seth Lloyd

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite

William Shakespeare

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

Leona Lewis

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.

Heidi Klum

Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Charles Knight

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same -- and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Pearl Buck