The unlived life is not worth examining.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

Barack Obama

Either Conquer Your Despair Or Your Despair Will Conquer You!

Timothy Pina

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.

Lisa Ann Sandell

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

Anna Faris

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Jean de la Bruyere

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Sir Winston Churchill

twice I have lived forever in a smile

E.E. Cummings

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

G. K. Chesterton

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Jos