There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Herbert HooverThe women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.
Zsa Zsa GaborBefore we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Emma GoldmanToday the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormickEvery citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
Mitch DanielsAll our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt DisneyA painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
Leopold StokowskiIt has been very disappointing for me to leave Celtic.
But under the circumstances I felt that I had been left with no choice. I had five great years at Celtic under Martin O'Neill. I would like to thank the players and staff for making me and my family so welcome.
Chris SuttonOnly in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry PratchettCourage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
AristotlePerhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
James BaldwinThe future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone WeilThe hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric HofferGeniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W H AudenIf you need to get a rebate, then you should debate, is it fair by the law, that you had to pay more?
Stan StevensStrangely, in slow-motion replay, the cricket ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.
David AcfieldThis decision has been the most difficult of my career to date. But after discussing it with my family and those closest to me I feel the time is right
David BeckhamBe thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord ByronLater, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of 'second meaning' of the terms applied.
Wolfgang PauliDancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
Henry FieldingI am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Alfred HitchcockI think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
W B YeatsSwitzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
Lord ByronA play is either well written, in which case it's easy to perform, or it is badly written, in which case it's difficult.
Adam FaithI don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie'Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?'
Marie AntoinetteThere is always attention on what you do at this level but then you are paid a lot and you should work hard for your lot so I have no problems with this.
Claus JensenTell me what you find better, or more honourable than age. Is not wisdom entailed upon it? Take the pre-eminence of it in everything; and in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree
Shackerley MarmionI know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.
Henry AlfordCanada has such a history of producing tremendous women athletes, yet people don't always know the history, know all the names.
Nancy GreeneHe who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.
William BlakeI am putting old heads on your young shoulders...all my pupils are the creme de la creme.
Muriel SparkThat's between me and the bed sheets [on what he wears in bed]
Gordon BrownAnd the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais NinI was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
Susan SontagSir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
William Henry HarrisonAnalysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri-Frederic AmielI have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Agatha ChristieMany are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
Julian BondI see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt WhitmanThey both played awesome cricket all summer so who knows what is going to happen? [on Bell and Collingwood]
Alastair CookYou can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something is missing.
Terrell DavisAccomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
Doug LarsonApes are apes though clothed in scarlet.
Ben JonsonThe eyes have one language everywhere.
George HerbertWell, to be honest, the fackin' facker's fackin' facked [on his back].
John Emburey"I don't know what the big issue is about it [a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things]. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it."
Denise RichardsI didn't know it was against the rules [on kissing the ref!]
ClebersonA reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was
Joseph HallObviously Mark is playing well to get to the final but I fancy my chances of going on and winning [on qualifier snooker player Mark Selby]
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