Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.

Tom Fleming

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

Cofer Black

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

Diane Wakoski

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

Grace Slick

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

Walter Pater

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

William Ewart Gladstone

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

Laurence Sterne

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Jean Rostand

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

General George Patton

Love works in mysterious ways,

Julia Quinn

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

B. C. Forbes

When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience without reproach; when there is faith in the Saviour; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should disquiet us.

Albert Barnes