The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Kin Hubbard

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Oliver Cromwell

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Alfred Hitchcock

A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.

Steve Maraboli

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

Tea Leoni

Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

John Ruskin

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Mason Cooley

I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.

Christine McVie

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

John D. MacDonald, The Turquoise

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Andrea Dworkin

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Thomas Paine

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

Frederik Pohl