Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

Roger Ebert

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Winston Churchill

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

Rand Paul

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

Jodi Picoult

People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.

Calvin Klein

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

Tom Waits

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Ogden Nash

Smile, damn it !! Smile.

Dame Sybil Hathaway

Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag. Soldiers, I bid you God-speed to your homes.

Abraham Lincoln

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Paul Little

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.

Proverb

Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature

John Moschitta