I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Herodotus

To me, I guess, it just sums up the addiction of addiction, kind of the guilty pleasure in being addicted to something. I never really write about one thing in particular, so, I mean, it can be about a girl, or it can be about alcohol. It's just basically the guilty pleasure in enjoying addiction, trying to get away from wanting to be addicted to something, yet still feeling comfortable with it.

Stephen Richards

Tak ada brahmana angkuh. Mereka hanya lebih mengerti, lebih tahu daripada orang yang menganggap pengetahuan dan ilmu sebagai keangkuhan.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Calvin Coolidge

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

E. O. Wilson

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

Anthony J. F. O'Reilly

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

Elizabeth Edwards

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

Scott Walker

All good art is an indiscretion.

Tennessee Williams

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

...and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

Khaled Hosseini

What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.

Marty Rubin