Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

Colin Farrell

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

John D. Rockefeller

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

George Eliot

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Fernando Pessoa

Only work half a day. It doesn't matter which half you work -- the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

Kemmons Wilson

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Benjamin Disraeli

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

John Ruskin

I've known some bad people and some good people in my life, and it's the bad ones who live in fear, all the time. Cause they know their own hearts... And they think everyone else is just waiting to pull the same moves on them that they've got planned to pull on somebody else.

Orson Scott Card

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Francis Bacon

Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. On the subject of her multiple marriages

Ava Gardner