We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)

Albert Einstein

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

Demi Moore

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Al Capp

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.

Rabindranath Tagore

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

African Proverb

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

Beatrice Wood

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

Charlton Heston

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

Markus Wolf

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

Terry Eagleton

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

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There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Edmund Burke

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Helen Keller