The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Anandabai Joshee

In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

Beilby Porteus

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

Liz Phair

I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself... God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants.

Brennan Manning, Signature of Je

What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.

Michelle Kwan

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

Hedy Lamarr

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Thomas S. Monson

Anyone believing in Cosmic Ordering wants for nothing.

Stephen Richards

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

Bell Hooks

Talents go by nature not by birth.

Frederick the Great

Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.

Rufus Sewell

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Clarence Day