Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Konstantin Stanislavisky

We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.

John Hutton

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

Lucy Powell

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Patrick Henry

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin P. Adams

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

Minoru Yamasaki

Foul water will quench fire.

English Proverb

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

Zig Ziglar

How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?

Virginia Woolf

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.

Andy Grove