Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

Michael Haneke

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Voltaire

Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.

Sylvia Day

It's not what you know, it's who you know.

Anonymous

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

John Dewey

Even in high school, I had friends that I didn't know were gay until years later. I'd find out on Facebook or something and be like, 'Oh, that explains some things,' or 'Wow, no wonder they were so cool.'

Kellan Lutz

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Isobelle Carmody

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Jean Anouilh

Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.

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Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

Kahlil Gibran