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The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

Quote by George W. Bush about prison

The story of America is the story of expanding liberty: an ever-widening circle, constantly growing to reach further and include more. Our nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend...

Quote by George W. Bush about love, liberty, nation, home, world

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about humility, wish, being, contentment

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about humility, wish, contentment

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about sin, absolution, being

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about aptitude, genius, imagination, reason

I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable...

Quote by Albert Camus about humor, smokers

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, history, time

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

Quote by Orson Scott about education, writers, career, knowledge

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Quote by Jane Austen about nation, rest, faith

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about wealth

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Quote by Bette Davis about happiness

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.

Quote by Michael Chabon about childhood, self-control, common sense, sense, old, olderness

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Quote by Bette Davis about man

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Quote by Bette Davis about love

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

Quote by Agatha Christie about attitude, attention

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Quote by Winston Churchill about history, past

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Quote by Winston Churchill about diets, word, life

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Quote by Winston Churchill