Quotes & Sayings About Love Conquering All Obstacles

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security. — Charles Bass

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera. — Javier Bardem

A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires. — Elisabeth Elliot

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy. — George Carlin

Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring. — Gustave Flaubert

There is always hope in a man who actually and earnestly works. — Thomas Carlyle

Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then ... what is the point? — R.A. Salvatore

Reason is passion's slave, is it not? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things. — Wilbert Rideau

Words are only an eye-twitch away from the things they stand for. — Thomas Pynchon

He found, moreover, that the younger and more ignorant his pupils were, the more pleasure he took in teaching. — Hermann Hesse

But there's a difference between an old-fashioned financial panic and what had happened on Wall Street in 2008. In an old-fashioned panic, perception creates its own reality: Someone shouts "Fire!" in a crowded theater and the audience crushes each other to death in its rush for the exits. On Wall Street in 2008 the reality finally overwhelmed perceptions: A crowded theater burned down with a lot of people still in their seats. Every major firm on Wall Street was either bankrupt or fatally intertwined with a bankrupt system. The problem wasn't that Lehman Brothers had been allowed to fail. The problem was that Lehman Brothers had been allowed to succeed. This — Michael Lewis

Most people have their buttons, Eustace continued. — James Purdy

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom. — Eric Alterman