Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

Kate Smith

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Steven Spielberg

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Eli Ginzberg

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

Charles Simmons

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

George Steiner

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Sir Thomas Browne

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

Tori Amos

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah Zettel

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Van Morrison

Don't tell me with words; show me with results.

Anonymous

It's written, 'seek and ye shall find'. But first, 'imagine what you seek'.Otherwise, you will end up searching everything everywhere forever.

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