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We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.

We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

What difference, at this point, does it make?

What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.

When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Why wait to be memorable?

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

You are not in business to be popular.

You can't handle the truth!

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Women power is a formidable force.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

You just witnessed something I've never seen in my entire life. They just called that team (Tennessee) the winner. They said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, (whistles) come back here. Then they called us the winner. I'm a tell you right now as an experience, dammit, I'm going to enjoy that one as much as I hate to admit it.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.