Thomas Jefferson -- still surv

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Bertrand Russell

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gary Mark Gilmore

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

Robert Casey

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Brian Tracy

He taught me there's a place on a man's back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his spine, all at once,' Sebastian had said. 'I guess we got the same birthday present that year, big brother,' Jace thought. 'Didn't we?

Cassandra Clare

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Denis Waitley

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

J.B.S. Haldane

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

George W. Ball

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

Donald Rumsfeld

I had not the least idea of a gamekeeper's occupation being so dangerous - there had never been such a person employed on the Longbourn estate - and just as I had spent half the previous night wondering about Peter, I spent half the next one worrying about him.

Jennifer Paynter

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

David O. Selznick