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Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth - the cowards!
Joaquin Miller

We plough the fields and scatter
The good seed on the land,
But it is fed and watered
By God's almighty hand;
He sends the snow in winter,
The warmth to swell the grain,
The breezes and the sunshine
And soft refreshing rain. [Hymn]
Matthias Claudius

With Jedi, I was amazed that you could make a half a movie out of a finale. [on seeing Star Wars]
Roland Emmerich

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars
George Catlett

The right honourable gentleman is reminiscent of a poker. The only difference is that a poker gives off the occasional signs of warmth. (On Robert Peel)
Benjamin Disraeli

I'm really happy, she's a great person. And she's a great influence on people around her. But I think that anything that has changed in my life is because of me. I've gone through it, and I've learned to deal with it and I've made the decision to move forward [on Samantha Ronson]
Lindsay Lohan

Afterwards, in the dusty little corners where London's secret servants drink together, there was argument about where the Dolphin case history should really begin
John Le Carre

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Gore Vidal

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John Calvin

None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware
Robert Herrick

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert Spencer

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt Gingrich

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Let him who desires peace, prepare for war
Flavius Vegetius Renatus

We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing - in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.
Timothy Wirth

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
Steve Martin

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
Nikolai Gogol

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
John Stuart Mill

Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.
Jay Leno

Beware of power - if you are given the option to have power be very certain of yourself before you decide to exercise that power.
Dario Fo

We do not have friendly relations but they are warm enough. Generally speaking, I treat him with great respect [on him and Jose]
Roman Abramovich

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?
Chris Rock

Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales.
Franklin D Roosevelt

I'm looking forward to the grass court season where the conditions will suit my game more [season, what season]
Greg Rusedski

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring
Lucanus

I just want to put that behind me, and want to keep moving forward to the future. The boss was making many changes in the side, and sometimes you fit and sometimes you don't
Charles N'zogbia

My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
Kelly Ripa

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
William Randolph Hearst

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville Kleiser

The true magnitude of the Nobel Committee's blunder in awarding the Prize to Kissinger didn't become apparent until the destabilization of Cambodia, set in motion by American intervention, produced the Khmer Rouge and the slaughter of over a million.
Paul Hager

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field
Albert Einstein

Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend.
Mark Cuban

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land
Jack London

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
André Gide

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.
William Bernbach

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
Frank Chodorov

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's a huge move for me to be going solo, but I'm looking forward to the challenge. It's also quite nerve-racking having been surrounded by six friends for four years, but I love the new single and other material I've been working on and we're all very supportive of each other.
Rachel Stevens

Beware ambition; heaven is not reached with pride; but with submission
Thomas Middleton

'Give me a handful of Westpoint Graduates and I'll win the battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win the war.'
General George Patten

Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. [on being an American]
Pete Hamill

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Frank Herbert

They're playing with a lot more confidence - there's no doubt about that. They are more match aware [on England]
Glenn McGrath

I hate to admit this but I do not even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I don't drink them anyway...I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and have been known to warm up some food in the microwave but cookery is definitely not one of my specialities
Michael Owen

The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing-fleet.
Rudyard Kipling

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.
Robert Jackson

Probably the chess game in Star Wars because it was funny and just a great moment of that particular movie [Fave moment in Star Wars]
Peter Mayhew



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