The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

Philip Roth

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

Michael Chang

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

John Sterling

Sometimes I love but then sometimes I think it's too much for me. And I don't know if it is something that I could do for the rest of my life.

Kristin Kreuk

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

Octavia Butler

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

Muhammad Ali

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Dorothy Thompson

All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.

Mark Viduka

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

Claire McCaskill