So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
Katharine Hepburn

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Saint Augustine

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint Augustine

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
Voltaire

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Steve Martin

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
Steve Martin

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin

I hope to get out before they start football next year.
Bear Bryant

The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
Bear Bryant

If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
Bear Bryant

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
Franklin D. Roosevelt