If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.

Sargent Shriver

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Russell Baker

However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, orcomplain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn'tthis be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who willnever even be offered life in the first place?

Richard Dawkins

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Albert Ellis

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

George Clinton

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Peter T. Forsyth

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

Sir Winston Churchill

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Ralph Marston

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Phil Bredesen

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

William Shakespeare

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

G. K. Chesterton

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

Emm Gryner