Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

Jeff Goodell

If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.

W. C. Fields

Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

Jean Baudrillard

Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source.

Laurie Helgoe

When things are really good, really easy it's not cool for me.

Romario

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Leon Kass

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

Friedrich Schiller

Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort.

Rubye Fields

Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Rita Dove

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Doris Lessing

The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Thomas Carlyle