If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn't reach a conclusion

History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.

Konrad Adenauer

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb

Vanquished in life, his death By beauty made amends: The passing of his breath Won his defeated ends.

Lionel Johnson

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Bruce Jenner

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

Ray Floyd

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

Laura Carmichael

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

Miguel Ferrer

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

Jan de Bont

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

George McGovern

Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rife,Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have placeAmid the tumult of reverberant strife'Twixt ancient creeds, 'twixt race and ancient race,That mars the grave, glad purposes of life,Leaving no refuge save thy succoring face?

Sarojini Naidu