There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Martin Luther

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Andrew Young

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action

Oscar Wilde

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

George Orwell

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

Jodi Picoult

Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Ambrose Bierce

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

Plato

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavor and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbor in the end.

Dame Barbara Ward

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Lawrence Durrell

Habit is second nature.

Michel de Montaigne

I'm not stupid!' In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Orson Scott Card

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Arnold Schwarzenegger