Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Plutarch
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. Kennedy
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
Mark Twain
Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
John James Audubon
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
Napoleon Hill
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.
George Eliot
Character is simply habit long continued.
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
James Buchan
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
Oscar Wilde
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Queen Latifah
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James.
J.K. Rowling
To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.
Julia Sweeney
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
Barbara Bush
The wildest colts make the best horses.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
Andrew Shue
The trouble with fiction... is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
Aldous Huxley
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
Barbara Castle
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING.People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.
Terry Pratchett
Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Mike Rounds
They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliott Erwitt
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
C.S. Lewis
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.
Mindy Kaling
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