You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

Oriana Fallaci

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

Alan Dundes

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

Fran Drescher

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Emile M. Cioran

It's a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

James Thurber

No emancipation without that of society.

Theodor Adorno

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

Boris Trajkovski