The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

Elliot Richardson

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

Penelope Wilton

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. Hebrews 11:6

Bible

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

Cassandra Clare

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Bertrand Russell

From our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cloud, the amount of wool that grows on a sheep's back, the length of a drought, and the growing of the corn, depend on nothing that moves immutable, at the heart of all things; but on the changeable will of a changeable being, whom our prayers can alter. To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not. Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is --the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

Olive Schreiner

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Plautus

We will not praise Mahomet's moral precepts as always of the superfinest sort; yet it can be said that there is always a tendency to good in them; that they are the true dictates of a heart aiming towards what is just and true

Thomas Carlyle

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

Major Owens

Older and wiser voices can always help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks At

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Harold S. Geneen

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.

Jeremy Rifkin