They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.

William Congreve

She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!

George Meredith

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

Mark Shields

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

John George Nicolay

And remember that within every lie, there is a truth hidden. Know the truth to defeat the lie.

T.A. Miles

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Sir Aubrey De Vere

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Anthony Robbins

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

Cyril Connolly

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

James Hetfield

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Sharon Stone

Politics has been called the art of the possible, and it actually is a realm akin to art insofar as, like art, it occupies a creatively mediating position between spirit and life, the idea and reality.

Thomas Mann