Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression...

Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.

Richard Halverson

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

John Green

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

Pope John Paul II

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

Samuel Johnson

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.

Jenson Button

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Walt Schmidt

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

Mark Twain

Quote from Unexpected Tales from the Ends of the Earth: This is that old well known man, for who I understood that one morning he puts the pistol in his mouth and put the trigger. He is dead right here. But he would never die in that dream. And I will never stop ask myself why I woke up, and how exactly has finished This is that old well known man, for who I understood that one morning he puts the pistol in his mouth and put the trigger. He is dead right here. But he would never die in that dream. And I will never stop ask myself why I woke up, and how exactly has finished the strange feast.

A. Tomov

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

Mitchell Kapor

If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.

Joe Laurie Jr.

I for one find a casual destruction of a man's life even more repugnant than a determined one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Joseph Wood Krutch