Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well - if you must.

Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

Brian May

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

Mike Myers

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

Reinhold Niebuhr

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

Plautus

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

Virginia Woolf

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution of way of life, or say and so things that make people think.

William O. Douglas

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.

Louise Slaughter

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

Imelda Marcos

There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me--I always feel that they have not said enough.

Mark Twain, Speeches 1923, Fulto

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

Martha Reeves

In the only sense that matters the surprise works as well the twentieth time as the first. It is the quality of unexpectedness, not the fact that delights us. It is even better the second time. Knowing that the 'surprise' is coming we can now fully relish the fact that this path through the shrubbery doesn't look as if it were suddenly going to bring us out on the edge of the cliff. So in literature. We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we are leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness. The children understand this well when they ask for the same story over and over again, and in the same words. They want to have again the 'surprise' of discovering that what seemed Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother is really the wolf. It is better when you know it is coming: free from the shock of actual surprise you can attend better to the intrinsic surprisingness of the peripeteia.

C.S. Lewis