Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Paracelsus

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

Boy George

People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

Hillary Clinton

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

Lilith Saintcrow

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

Lena Dunham

The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.

Anita Shreve

Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the consensus itself was any of my concern. It was absurd and slightly despicable, in the first decade of Thatcher and Reagan, to hear former and actual radicals intone piously against 'the politics of confrontation.' I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive.

Christopher Hitchens

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Tom Cruise

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

Joan D. Vinge