A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized: 'Why am I trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?' I think I'm beautiful either way.

What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.

Cassandra Clare

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

William Hague

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Anouilh, Jean

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow

William Shakespeare

Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

Sun Tzu

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

Sue Wicks

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Victor Pinchuk

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Benjamin Franklin

I for one find a casual destruction of a man's life even more repugnant than a determined one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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