It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

Ben Affleck

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

Thomas Huxley

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

Henry Louis Gates

Rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why; If I could it end it, I would. But I can't.

Stephen King

The best revenge is massive success.

Frank Sinatra

Look at the tyranny of party-- at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty-- a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes-- and which turns voters into chattels, slaves, rabbits; and all the while, their masters, and they themselves are shouting rubbish about liberty, independence, freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, honestly unconscious of the fantastic contradiction; and forgetting or ignoring that their fathers and the churches shouted the same blasphemies a generation earlier when they were closing thier doors against the hunted slave, beating his handful of humane defenders with Bible-texts and billies, and pocketing the insults nad licking the shoes of his Southern master.

Mark Twain

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

Jeffrey Kluger

God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.

Rudyard Kipling

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Francis Bacon

God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something through to somebody.

Sylvia AshtonWarner

Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

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