Arabs respect only the language of force.
He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.
We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.
I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.
Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We contemplate the immediate task of putting our public household in order. We need a rigid and yet sane economy, combined with fiscal justice, and it must be attended by individual prudence and thrift, which are so essential to this trying hour and reassuring for the future.
Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature. . . . Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind.
With 'The Vampire Diaries,' it's not just a tease, especially with the relationships. You're not sitting there going, 'God, I wish they'd get it over with and kiss!' There's no teasing, they jump right into the action.
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.