We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Max Fuller

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Kahlil Gibran

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

Taylor Swift

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

Joni Mitchell

... the very last thing I want to do is to unsettle in the mind of any Christian, whatever his denomination, the concepts -- for him traditional -- by which he finds it profitable to represent to himself what is happening when he receives the bread and wine. I could wish that no definitions had ever been felt to be necessary; and, still more, that none had been allowed to make divisions between churches.

C.S. Lewis

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

Thomas Carlyle

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

Bruce Willis

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Noam Chomsky

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

E. M. Cioran

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Lady Gaga

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

Buck Owens