"Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism."

“It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcome… “This attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism. We must not be silenced.”

“I like lots of things. But there are three things I like most. Love, love and love.”

Source : "Fictional character: Sylvia". "La dolce vita", www.imdb.com. 1961.

“There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all.”

“A difficult message to hear is an opportunity to enrich someone's life.”

“We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.”

“I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.”

“To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1884). “Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield”

“It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.121, Macmillan