Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

Lord Chesterfield

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

Janet Fitch

House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.

John Boehner

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

William Arthur Ward

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

Plautus

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Wolfman Jack Smith

Nature is not served by rigid laws, but by rhythmical, reciprocal processes. Nature uses none of the preconditions of the chemist or the physicist for the purposes of evolution. Nature excludes all fire, on principle, for purposes of growth; therefore all contemporary machines are unnatural and constructed according to false premises. Nature avails herself of the biodynamic form of motion through which the biological prerequisite for the emergence of life is provided. Its purpose is to ur-procreate 'higher' conditions of matter out of the originally inferior raw materials, which afford the evolutionally older, or the numerically greater rising generation, the possibility of a constant capacity to evolve, for without any growing and increasing reserves of energy there would be no evolution or development. This results first and foremost in the collapse of the so-called Law of the Conservation of Energy, and in further consequence the Law of Gravity, and all other dogmatic lose any rational or practical basis.

Viktor Schauberger

Existují takové v?ci jako jedlé... ne, delikátní pirohy v polévce, hrášky dokonale uva?ené, rajská omá?ka pikantní ve své chu?ové plnosti a masová nápl? z on?ch?ástí zví?at, které by se daly v?tšinou i pojmenovat. Jsou platonické burgery vyrobené z hov?zího a ne z volské tlamy a kopyt. Jsou jisté obchody, kde mají smažené filé s pomfrity, kdy filé je ryba a ne jen bílá b?e?ka v rakvi?ce ze smažené strouhanky a pomfrity jsou k jídlu a nedají se použít k holení. Jsou párky v rohlíku, kdy mají párky s masem spole?nou nejen barvu a jejich š?astní konzumenti si na n? nedávají ho??ici, aby nepokazili tu chu?. D?ležité však je, že se lidé dají nau?it na to, aby dávali p?ednost ob?erstvení toho prvního typu a vyhledávali je. Je to, jako kdyby Machiavelli napsal kucha?ku. Ale a? už se mají v?ci jakkoliv, neexistuje omluva pro nikoho, kdo dá na pizzu ananas.

Terry Pratchett

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

Joss Whedon

My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.

Chelsea Clinton