I want to come across as a positive person.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Shirley Hazzard

We tend to be judged because of our actions.

Roxy Writer

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

Maria Sharapova

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

Larry Wall

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. Gone With The Wind

Margaret Mitchell

Truth...never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.

John Milton

Don't use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don't worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.

Henry Cloud

I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.

Gary Locke

He who is brave is free.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

Lois Horowitz

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Charles Caleb Colton