Sam's eyes studied my lips and I studied hers. We each leaned in closer until our foreheads were touching. It felt like currents of electricity were running through the two of us, making me feel like I was going to melt from the intensity.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.

Tacitus

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Thomas Carlyle

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

Eric Bana

I do not seek, I find.

Pablo Picasso

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

Omar Bongo

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

Robert Richardson

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

Marlene Dietrich

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Robbie Coltrane

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Robert Conklin