Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

Virginia Satir

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Sholem Asch

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.

Kim Gordon

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

Janet Fitch

Common sense hides shame.

Scottish Proverb

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

H. L. Mencken

The essence of good government is trust.

Kathleen Sebelius

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Albert Camus

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

Orson Scott Card