I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

E. M. Cioran

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

Michelle Bachelet

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won t.

Hyman Rickover

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

American Indian Proverb, Duwamis

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

John Boorman

It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.

Lady Gaga

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

Adam Brody

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

Walter Lippmann

I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

Barbra Streisand

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.

William Cullen Bryant

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Francis Beaumont