Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. About Russia

Sir Winston Churchill

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Bertrand Russell

An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Enrico Fermi

The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.

Talcott Parsons

I think that God will provide opportunities and people and experiences, and everything we need to date and ultimately to find the one.

Henry Cloud

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Suzanne Finnamore

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

Johannes Tauler

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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You can be young without money; but you can't be old without it.

Tennessee Williams