It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Enemies promises were made to be broken.

Aesop

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

Ralph Peters

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

William Blake

Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

Meagan Spooner

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

William Hazlitt

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

Timothy Garton Ash

Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: One must not hide that! Then someone tells you: The shoulder is on the back. I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.

Coco Chanel

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

Boris Johnson

You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

Ed Markey

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Bertrand Russell

How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!

Leo Tolstoy

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein