There are three stages of truth. First is that it can't be true, and that's what they said. You couldn't immunize against polio with a killed-virus vaccine. Second phase: they say, Well, if it's true, it's not very important. And the third stage is, 'Well, we've known it all along.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Alfred Hitchcock

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

Dale Carnegie

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature

William Shakespeare

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Marc Andreessen

America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

Jesse Jackson

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

Jim DeMint

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

George Jean Nathan

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

Judith Guest

When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.

Rosamund Lupton