Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
Milton Friedman

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
R. Lee Ermey

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthur

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.
Charles Spurgeon

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
John Steinbeck

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
Bette Davis

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
Henny Youngman

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
Albert Ellis

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James A. Baldwin

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
James A. Baldwin

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
Bobby Knight

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. Truman

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
David Ogilvy

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
Orson Welles

A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.
Lenny Bruce