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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And then they excused themselves to go watch 'Big Brother'.
Bill Maher

He is someone I respect [Beckham] as a man and as a player. He is the captain of England and has been a European champion. I have never been critical of him and reports implying that are incorrect as I've never made comments about him
Jose Mourinho

I'm really happy I'm playing well over the last couple of days and it's been a successful tournament so far
Arvind Parmar

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
Yasser Arafat

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.
Jerry Seinfield

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike

Men cannot be well educated without the Bible. It ought, therefore, to hold the chief place in every situation of learning throughout Christendom; and I do not know of a higher service that could be rendered to this republic than the bringing about this desirable result.
Eliphalet Nott

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper (The Hollow Men)
T S Elliot

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
Max Lerner

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter (before the Battle of Trafalgar)
Admiral Collingwood

Barbie is my fashion icon. People think I'm Paris Barbie - and it's a compliment.
Paris Hilton

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.
Raisa Gorbachev

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
Zelda Fitzgerald

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Jean De La Bruyere

There was obviously excitement when Kimi Raikkonen came on the scene, but he hasn't been able to deliver the number of wins people expected him to have.
Jackie Stewart

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal.
Alain Badiou

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.
Roy Barnes

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will
Henry George

We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change.
Dave Foreman

The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs (L'Esprit des betes)
A Toussenel

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
Countess Of Blessington

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
Camille Desmoulins

He's a bit like a puppeteer because he's playing us all like fiddles [another inane comment from Stubbsy]
Ray Stubbs

I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!
Tommy Franks

For the small minority who don't accept women, or black or gay people, as their equals, I've got a message: Don't think you'll find a refuge from the world here. There is no place for you in the Conservative Party.
Theresa May

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Queen Elizabeth II

The biggest room in this world is the room for improvement
Richard Eden

It's all changed now, which is why it mattered to those young men from Liverpool that they should be there to support their team.
Beryl Bainbridge

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
Dennis Kucinich

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side
Aristotle

I don't think I've ever seen a guy play that well in my life. [on losing to Federer at the 2004 end of year tournament]
Lleyton Hewitt

Seriously, I have to play a tournament next week in Newport. I have no more rackets now [after throwing his rackets in the crowd]
Michael Llodra

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Humphrey Davy

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Simone De Beauvoir

The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. [On an audience]
Elmer Davis

A herd of elephant... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world (Out of Africa)
Isak Dinesen

This payment is to be the sum of US$500,000 - details of which must be kept confidential by both parties [on demanding half a million to resign as an umpire!]
Darrell Hair

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
Charles Manson

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Henry L Mencken

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fedor Dostoevsky

Civilisation is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
Sir Aubrey De Vere

It is very important that women of this country be made aware of the dangers of osteoporosis in the sense that it is a silent and invisible disease with no symptoms whatsoever
Rita Moreno



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