It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

Frank Leahy

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Always something new, seldom something good.

Proverb

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

Minorities are individual or groups of individuals especially qualified. The masses are the collection of people not specially qualified.

Jos, The Revolt of the Masses, 1

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Kahlil Gibran

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

Bertrand Russell

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

Walter Lippmann

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lewis H. Lapham

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

Emily Procter

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

Cyrus the Great

Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.

Jean Paul