Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in the

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Richard Dawkins

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Tacitus

Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow!

Gloria Pitzer

It's a very strange thing, love. You can't get rid of it. If you try to give it out, you get more back. If you try to hang onto it, you lose it.

Warren Buffett

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Ambrose Bierce

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

Flannery O'Connor

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

John Boehner

Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story.

Rebecca Solnit

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

Mrs. Humphrey Ward

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Alexander Pope