As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

Stephen King

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Pat Riley

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

Mike Gordon

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

Bono

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.

Amanda Holden

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Lucretius

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Thornton Wilder

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Henry Lewis Stimson

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Amos Bronson Alcott

I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'

Terry McAuliffe

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

Joan D. Vinge