The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Our life is like a land journey: too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view - and feel exalted - and your eyes are full of happy tears - and you want to sing - and you wish you had wings! And then - you can't stay there, but you must continue your journey - you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten.

Lloyd Douglas

These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.

Steve Backley

a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

Gautama Buddha

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

Barbara Jordan

Unselfishly, you left your fathers and your mothers,You left behind your sisters and your brothers.Leaving your beloved children and wives,You put on hold, your dreams

Anon., In Your Honor

Bury the truth, along with the bodies of the disbelievers.

Jarod Kintz

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

George Saunders

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

Mehmet Oz

I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Milan Kundera

Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.

Theodore Roosevelt

I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

Virginia Woolf

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

Shelley Long