If NASCAR racing gets any more exciting, I may not be able to stand it.
Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.
There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.
When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.
You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.
