Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

John Fowles

In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

Condoleezza Rice

I understand you are doing The Sorcerer's Apprentice. I would love to do that for you. I will do it for nothing.

Leopold Stokowski

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Robert Kiyosaki

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

Jane Austen

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

Jasmine Guy

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

Mandy Patinkin

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Herbert B. Swope

The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings.

Dan Cook, "The Washington Post",

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Charles Lamb