I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

Henry David Thoreau

This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.

Lindsay Lohan

I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

Brooklyn Decker

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Ramsey Clark

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wherever there is a parliament, there must of necessity be an opposition.

John Wagstaff

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Woodrow Wilson

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

John Buchan

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Everything is hard when you have not started yet, but once you begin the hardness dissolves.

Nkosinathi Mehlomakulu

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Omar Khayyam

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

Walter Weckler