When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

To look and feel my best, I watch my calories and exercise.

Kim Kardashian

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

Gustav Heinemann

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

Source Unknown

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

David Storey

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Alexander Smith

It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

Craig Bruce

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

Fred Upton

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

Sarah Palin

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Emily Carr

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Margaret Mead

A setback is a lesson to push you forward.

Habeeb Akande