The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Max Planck

The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots of money.

Paul Erdman

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Charles Baudelaire

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch...someone whoes fingers are a poem.

Janet Fitch

Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or that it was always darkest just before the dawn, or anything else that had just lately fallen out of the dog's ass, she simply held her. Because sometimes only holding was best. That was one of the things she had taught that man whose last name she had taken for her own--that sometimes it was best to be quiet; sometimes it was best to just shut your everlasting mouth and hang on, hang on, hang on.

Stephen King

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.

Nicholas Sparks

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

Jim Cramer

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Thomas Lynch

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Charlotte Bunch

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mahatma Gandhi

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge