Why are there five syllables in the word monosyllabic?

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Bertrand Russell

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

Peter Marshall

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

Julie Burchill

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Isaiah 2:4

Bible

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

C. Wright Mills

But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.

Mark Ruffalo

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Oscar Wilde

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Phillips Brooks

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Sophocles

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

Pete Coors

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Dwight D. Eisenhower