Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Fawn M. Brodie

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.

David Livingstone

Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

William Butler Yeats

We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Walter Lippmann

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

Kinky Friedman

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the wrong is done, a mancan turn his back on folly, misfortune too,if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen,and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornnessbrands you for stupidity - pride is a crime.

Sophocles

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Sir Richard Steele

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

Charles Grassley

Love is to be nurtured, protected, and respected, and entered into with a clear mind and a sound heart.

Denene Millner

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb