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  • Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game.
        Alan Moore   Best?
  • It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • I'm just trying to get in, it's not like I'm running for Jesus.
        Homer Simpson   Best?
  • He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen enemy, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength.
        R. A. Salvatore   Best?
  • Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.
        Richard Bach   Best?
  • Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.
        John Hinckley   Best?
  • It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  • Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard.
        Peter Drucker   Best?
  • Energy is eternal delight.
        William Blake   Best?
  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
        Edith Wharton   Best?
  • All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Alchohol, the cause of and the solution to all the world's problems.
        Homer Simpson   Best?
  • I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
        William Blake   Best?
  • The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
        Aesop   Best?
  • The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
        Malcolm Muggeridge   Best?
  • Americans have different ways of saying things. They say `elevator', we say `lift'...they say `President', we say `stupid psychopathic git'....
        Alexi Sayle   Best?
  • The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • The measure of a man is what he does with power.
        Pittacus   Best?
  • Knowing is half the battle.
        GI Joe   Best?
  • The President can bomb anybody he likes.
        Richard Nixon   Best?
  • With great power comes great responsibility.
        Stan Lee   Best?
  • Always in motion is the future.
        Yoda   Best?
  • The perfect man of action, is the suicide.
        William Carlos Williams   Best?
  • If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
        Nikola Tesla   Best?
  • Dancing is a contact sport. Football is a hitting sport.
        Vince Lombardi   Best?
  • When you control the ball, you control the score.
        Pele   Best?
  • Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other.
        Raymond Loewy   Best?
  • A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.
        Bolivian Proverb   Best?
  • Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
        Jose Ortega y Gasset   Best?
  • Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
        Antoine de Saint-Exupery   Best?
  • A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.
        Jake Johanson   Best?
  • Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
        Titus Livius   Best?

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