Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that

everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
Vikram Seth

What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.
Hillary Clinton

Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here.
Tony Garza

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.
Ruben Studdard

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.
Mary Barnett Gilson

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
Jeff Bezos

Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary.
Emanuel Ax

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
Philip Zimbardo

I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.
Kathleen Quinlan