Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Love is a great power, and such a strange power...

Sergei Lukyanenko

I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it

Bible

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

Mariska Hargitay

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

Kenneth Robert Livingstone

I am nobody, even if I say I am this or that.

Santosh Kalwar

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Robert Brustein

The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.

Laura Anne Gilman

Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I - we've been working together since I was 17.

Lindsey Buckingham

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Mark Strand

Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Charles Kuralt

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel