The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead deck, his the eyes beyond the flames, his the grin from beyond the grave of the world.

Stephen King

As for science and religion, the known and admitted facts are few and plain enough. All that the parsons say is unproved. All that the doctors say is disproved. That's the only difference between science and religion there's ever been, or will be.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Enemies promises were made to be broken.

Aesop

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Richard Saunders

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Will Durant

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

Mike Pence

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Omar Epps

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Mary Douglas

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Edward Young

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

Michael Jordan

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

Viktor E. Frankl

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

Bill Gothard