Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

If theres another world he lives in bliss if there is none he made the best of this.

Afflictions sons are brothers in distress A brother to relieve how exquisite the bliss

My dear my native soil For whom my warmest wish to heavn is sent long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil be blest with health and peace and sweet content

Even thou who mournst the daisys fate That fate is thine no distant date Stern Ruins ploughshare drives elate Full on thy bloom Till crushed beneath the furrows weight Shall be thy doom

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

Think when your castigated pulse Gies now and then a wallop What ragings must his veins convulse That still eternal gallop

Anticipation forward points the view.

But to see her was to love her Love but her and love forever.

Oh, my Luve's like a red red rose that's newly sprung in June: O, my Luve's like the melodie that's sweetly play'd in tune.

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o' daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.

I feel like money makes you more of who you already are.

I love working with PETA.

Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause the making of the suffering.

Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.

The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.

I can be whatever. I can wear shoes or don't wear shoes. I can tie my hair up or wear it down. It doesn't matter.

Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known.

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

I cannot accept fraud.

My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.

Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.

I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.