You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son. Witold Gombrowicz
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end. George Armstrong Custer
You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. Arundhati Roy
You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform. Steve Israel
You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it. Tom Tancredo
You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low. John Kricfalusi
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. Ella Maillart
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. Robert Louis Stevenson
You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have. John McLaughlin