Best team player? As good as Lebron James is, I have to go with Messi. What he's doing, he's on pace to becoming the best ever.
We have every right to dream heroic dreams.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history. . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the. . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
I’d ask you to hang out with us, but you’re not supposed to see me this way. ’… ‘What way?’ I ask. ‘Drunk?’ ‘Yeah…well, no. ’ His voice softens. ‘Real, I guess. ’ ‘I’ll pretend I didn’t. ’ ‘Nice of you. ’ He puts his lips next to my ear and says, ‘You look good, Tris. ’… I laugh. ‘Do me a favor and stay away from the chasm, okay?’ ‘Of course. ’ He winks at me.
You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.
It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach.
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.