A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

Gerald Massey

Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.

'Detroit Journal'

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.

James Buchan

NARCISSUS:A republican is a man who strives to create equality among all classes. At the core he's a man who believes in doing what's right.GAIUS: The trouble is defining exactly what 'right' is.NARCISSUS:We all know what right is, Senator.COMMODUS:I would say there's nothing more dangerous than a man who knows what 'right' is.NARCISSUS:The dangerous man, Caesar, is the man who doesn't care.http://have-dog.com/gladiator/gladiator01.html

David Franzoni, Gladiator (movie

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

Ron Fournier

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

Christian Bale

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Albert Camus

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

Haley Barbour

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

Anthony Trollope

Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.

Thomas Mann

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

Joel Osteen

I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.

Melanie Fiona