To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Darrell Issa

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

John Masefield

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.

Christopher Hitchens

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

Dale Carnegie

Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you the doors of breath, Seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!

William Shakespeare

Small service is true service, while it lasts.

William Wordsworth

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

Deb Caletti

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

David Hume

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

Christina Aguilera

Many without punishment, none without sin.

John Ray

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Stephen King

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Ralph W. Sockman