The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Desmond Tutu

Beauty like hers is genius.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

Kid Rock

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

Trofim Lysenko

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

Paula Danziger

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Nathalie Sarraute

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.But never, ever, ever give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

Edgar R. Fiedler

Quella strada del passato si srotolava confusamente di fianco a noi come se la tazza della vita si fosse rovesciata e ogni cosa fosse impazzita.

Jack Kerouac

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

Werner Herzog

There is nothing like the thrill of walking through the jungle looking for a tiger and knowing they could be watching you already.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau