Doris Lessing Fifth Child Quotes

#1. In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

Chuck Schumer

#2. Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.

Harry S. Truman

#3. I definitely make an effort to work on different styles of music: not working on too many post-rock bands, or too many heavy bands, or too many folk bands, or just whatever. I have no desire to be known as somebody that just works on a single style of music and would rather avoid it, actually.

John Congleton

#4. Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

Oliver Reed

#5. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

Kathleen Hanna

#6. To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.

Shaquille O'Neal

#7. Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

Anagarika Govinda

#8. The fact speak for themselves.

Demosthenes

#9. I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave.

Telly Savalas

#10. I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

Marianne Faithfull

#11. You have to be a responsible adult and support yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.

Susane Colasanti

#12. He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.

Philip Zaleski

#13. In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everything burns to nothing and even nothing burns ... And when there is nothing, there is nothing worth dying for and when there is nothing worth dying for, there is only nothing.

Tim O'Brien