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- Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898), Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck
- He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
- Al Franken, "Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them", 2003
- Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
- Bob Dylan (1941 - )
- A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
- When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
- Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass that's somehow connected to birth.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, September 30, 2003
- Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
(Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen) - Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), From his play Almansor (1821)
- The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1967
- Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
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