She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
#quotes #oscar-wilde #fashion

We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
#proverbs #dutch-proverbs #time #age #wisdom

U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
#quotes #henry-paulson #economy #united-states #china

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
#quotes #russell-means #freedom #united-states

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
#proverbs #swedish-proverbs #happiness #sorrow #sharing

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
#quotes #rebecca-west #mozart #music

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
#quotes #barbara-jordan #united-states

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
#quotes #peter-camejo #law #europe #united-states

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
#quotes #abdallah-ii-of-jordan #democracy

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
#quotes #mark-leyner #happiness

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
#quotes #virginia-postrel #family #children #work

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
#quotes #r-a-salvatore #fantasy

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
#quotes #sylvia-earle #individual #freedom #government #united-states

I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
#quotes #greta-gerwig #writing #acting

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
#quotes #ned-rorem

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
#quotes #ernest-hemingway #africa #travel

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
#quotes #terence-mckenna #beauty #life

In our post 9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy. ~Mike Rogers
#quotes #mike-rogers #education #military #united-states

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
#quotes #sebastian-faulks #70s #eating

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
#quotes #zhu-rongji #motivation

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
#quotes #ferdinand-mount #history #united-states

I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
#quotes #kofi-annan #military #iraq #united-states

While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
#quotes #robert-tisserand #aromatherapy

Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs #advice

Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. ~Ron Paul
#quotes #ron-paul #clinton #politics