Uccello Della Pace Quotes

#1. Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.

Alain De Botton

#2. The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.

Rush Limbaugh

#3. One by one, all of my college buddies had taken these nothing-special entry-level jobs, pushing papers for $18,000 or $21,000 a year (and hating the work besides), and I'd turn up my nose and tell them I wasn't about to get out of bed for anything less than $50,000. That was my line, my attitude.

Bill Rancic

#4. If you allow yourself to feel fabulous, you are fabulous.

Natalia Kills

#5. Real people make messes. They sweat and come. Cry and scream. You're going to be real with me, Bailey. From this point forward I want you to trust me enough to be real.

Riley Murphy

#6. Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

George Henry Lewes

#7. Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day.

J.K. Rowling

#8. I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

Joel Edgerton

#9. Leia was looking up at Poe, smiling ever so slightly. Flyboys. You're all the same.
Some of us are flygirls, Poe said.

Greg Rucka

#10. My personality is just innately even-keeled. I'm not such a huge daredevil. Which is not to say I'm not a passionate woman. I don't know, maybe it's my physiological makeup, but I don't like the feeling of anything in my system, other than a glass of wine now and then.

Vera Farmiga

#11. The wheel of Fortune turns one way and another, taking us to the heights or the depths. That is the great wheel on which we all turn, tied to destinies that move up or down at the whim of God above.

Ned Hayes

#12. Edith Wharton with the death penalty

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#13. And as if she had opened a hidden door, I felt the patterned surface break and give way, and the words let me in. I still loved opening a book and feeling like I was physically entering the page, the ordinary world fizzing and blurring around the edges until it disappeared.

Julie Schumacher