I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

I can't mention, I'm sorry to say, any Arab leader... Where is the... Nasser? Where is the Arab leader who will stand up and tell these people the truth? This is what we are waiting for.

George Galloway

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Thomas Sowell

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Ovid

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

W. C. Fields

I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!

Chris O'Dowd

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

J. Martin Kohe

A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. As the captive men were faded and haggard, so the iron was rusty, the stone was slimy, the wood was rotten, the air was faint, the light was dim. Like a well, like a vault, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside; and would have kept its polluted atmosphere intact, in one of the spice islands of the Indian Ocean.

Charles Dickens

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

William Shakespeare

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

G. K. Chesterton

Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

Evelyn Waugh

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

Kelly Lynch

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut