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“They say that moving is one of the most stressful things in life. Death in the family is the second most stressful, and moving your dead spouse is the third.”
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“Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.”
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“We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.”
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“Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.”
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“I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something.”
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“Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience. Nor are you a slave to others who demand your sacrifice. You choose your own goals based on your own values. Success and failure are both the necessary incentives to learn and to grow. Your action on behalf of others, or their action on behalf of you, is only virtuous when it is derived from voluntary, mutual consent. For virtue can only exist when there is free choice.”
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“The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American Left who hates Christendom. ... What I'm talking about is onward American soldiers. What we're talking about are core American values.”
Source : "Santorum: Left hates 'Christendom'". www.politico.com. February 23, 2011. 
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“Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.”
Source : William Greider (1998). “One World, Ready Or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism”, p.336, Simon and Schuster
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“Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.”
Source : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.272
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“I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.”
Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
