- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill
- Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. - Winston Churchill
- All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. - Rudyard Kipling
- Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. - John F. Kennedy
- Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. - C. S. Lewis
- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. - George Orwell
- I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living. - Christian Bale
- Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. - Mark Twain
- All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. - Muhammad Ali
- A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. - George Jean Nathan
- You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count. – Winnie the Pooh
- A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. - Winston Churchill
- I do not love the bright sword for it's sharpness, nor the arrow for it's swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. – Tolkien
- I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. - John Steinbeck
- What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? - Ursula K. Le Guin
- The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen
- A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. - Ayn Rand
- If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. - Winston Churchill
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. - Marcus Aurelius
- I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. – Harper Lee
- The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers. – Joss Whedon
- Houston, we have a problem. – Apollo 13
- For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack. – Uncle Rudyard
- When you find yourself out in the cold, all you can do is put your head down and try to survive. – Michael Weston
- If you can't do something smart, do something right – Mal
- You can learn all the math in the 'verse... but you take a boat in the air that you don't love... she'll shake you off just as sure as the turn of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down... tells you she's hurting before she keels. – Mal
- It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying. - King Hussein
- We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders. - Walter Cronkite
- Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons. - Joseph Cannon
- All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. - Winston Churchill
- May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. - George Carlin
- For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan
- Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. - P. J. O'Rourke
- Politics is the only thing more boring than blood samples. - Baltar
- Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau
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