We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

Nas

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Thomas Carlyle

He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not.

Michael Robotham

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

Andres Iniesta

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Andrea Dworkin

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

Edwin Louis Cole

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.

Marquis de Sade

It was not, after all, so easy to die.

J.K. Rowling

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

Terry Pratchett