No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.
George William Norris
Recitation: by Male by Female
I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally.
Jodi Kantor
MarriageExperienceTogetherThink
I know so many women, comic geniuses. Where are the parts?
Melanie Mayron
WomenKnowWhereComicManyParts
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
TimeArchitectureSlowStructure
I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.
Jay Parini
LifeGreatDeathValueStoryThink
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
ManTrueNeverOwnGainHis
People didn't stop me before for a guest spot that I did on 'Smallville.' Nothing against 'Smallville,' but people didn't freak out in traffic to tell me they love my show.
Diego Klattenhoff
LovePeopleMeStopTrafficNothing
I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
Colin Firth
WorkRespectPeopleMeCrazyDrive
I have lately examined water, in which beaten pepper was steeped, and found two sorts of animals for shape, and each of those sorts to contain greater and smaller kinds: the greater I supposed the elder, the less the younger.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
WaterAnimalsTwoShapeGreater
Every time you're given a job, you're given a gift, and if you're flexible, you never know what's going to happen.
Annie Golden
TimeJobGiftYouKnowFlexible
I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!
Austin Butler
LoveFindGirlfriendBritishEnglish
I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.
Alice Oswald
WorldLanguageWeirdOwnershipTry
I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.
Piper Perabo
LovePeopleThinkYouUnderstand
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