We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, we'd like to work but we're feeling too weak, we'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, we'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, we'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.

The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.

Robert Nelson

We can talk about our dreams all night, Lisette. We can talk forever, for the rest of our lives, living one adventure after another, I promise. But not now, my darling Lisette. For now, all I can think of is the brilliance of yet another ancient Greek, Sophocles. He said, 'One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life-that word is love.' I love you, Lisette. You bring my life joy I've never known. Please, marry me.

Kasey Michaels

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

Camille Paglia

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

George Carey

Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Francis Bacon

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J.K. Rowling

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

An Wang

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Bill Gates

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

Warren Christopher

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Hubert H. Humphrey