The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

Language is a weapon, keep it honed!

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

Don't allow yourself to be upset and disturbed. Hold your peace because without it you have no power.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

What we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management.