By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. It may be a long farewell, but it has begun and, like all farewells, should not be protracted.

Christopher Hitchens

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly

Voltaire

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Artur Schnabel

What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Helen Rowland

The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo, the belief that you are never wrong. Believing you are never wrong is an error that afflicts great men. I have learned that to be right you must first be wrong many times. Without making errors--and learning from them--a man cannot find the truth.

Christopher Peter Grey

If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.

Smiley Blanton

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Thomas Pynchon

Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.

William Shakespeare

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

Vivienne Westwood

And like a colorful bloom of temporary lights in the sky, you will shine.

Chad Sugg

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Bob Beauprez

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

Gro Harlem Brundtland