Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

Yann Martel

Even if I was well - I must make myself as good a Philosopher as possible. Now I have had opportunities of passing nights anxious and awake I have found other thoughts intrude upon me. If I should die, said I to myself, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.http://englishhistory.net/keats/letters/brawnefebruary1820.html

John Keats, Letter to Fanny Braw

That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.

Samuel Goldwyn

I'm not a one-issue person.

Barbara Bush

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Blaise Pascal

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

James H. Robinson

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

Sri Sarada Devi

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

Jerry Brown

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

J.K. Rowling

A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

Samuel Johnson

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Michael Leboeuf

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless,and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.

Ilyas Kassam