To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward.

Peter Ackroyd

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Avery Brundage

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

Simon Mainwaring

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Thomas Carlyle

For awhile, I thought that was love.-Gaara

Masashi Kishimoto

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Lao Tzu

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

Albert Camus

I have come back again to where I belong; not an enchanted place, but the walls are strong.

Dorothy H. Rath

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

Emma Goldman

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.

Amy Klobuchar

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

e. e. cummings