Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere. You always know what a pessimist is thinking, and if you don

Christopher Orlet, from The Opti

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Marcus Garvey

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

Peter Davison

The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons.

Paulo Coelho

Everyone lives by selling something.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Always tell yourself that you are as good as anyone that breathes; that you have two hands and a brain, and a little time in which to use them. But they are enough, and no one has any more. And if you train and force them to serve you well, you can reach any height to which you aspire. But to waste any of them is to betray yourself.

Robert Stroud

Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.

Ron Peterson

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

Steven Weinberg

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

Weisert

[...] this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

Charles Dickens

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

Brendan F. Behan