Editorializes The Value Quotes & Sayings

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. — Sean Penn

And what is beauty?" "Terror. — Donna Tartt

Don't let the situation say stop to your true purpose;say stop to the situation. Situations are situations and you are you — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again. — Sojourner Truth

Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it. — John Huston

What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right. — John Redwood

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey. — Rumi

I'm not accustomed to the idea of a woman holding a position among men at a place of business," she admitted. "My father always said that the female brain was insufficient to the demands of professional work."
"You disapprove of Fernsby's actions, then?"
"I approve wholeheartedly," she said without hesitation. "A woman should have choices other than to marry or live with her family. — Lisa Kleypas

The Court of Vienna is behaving very badly,' Napoleon wrote to Joseph from Valladolid on January 15, 1809, 'it may have cause to repent. Don't be uneasy. I have enough troops, even without touching my army in Spain, to get to Vienna in a month . . . In fact, my mere presence in Paris will reduce Austria to her usual irrelevance.'1 He did not know at that stage that Austria had already received a large British subsidy to persuade her to fight what would become the War of the Fifth Coalition. Archduke Charles had been putting all able-bodied men between eighteen and forty-five into uniform in the new Landwehr militia, some of whose units were indistinguishable from the regular army. — Andrew Roberts

The moral character of the victim has nothing to do with it! A human being who has exercised the right of private judgment and taken the life of another human being is not safe to exist amongst the community. — Agatha Christie

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things. — Richard Russo