Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

Sheri S. Tepper

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

Wayne Calloway

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Charles Spurgeon

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.

Anna Lindh

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

Jane Austen

If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.

Robert Conklin

Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?

Cassandra Clare

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

R. A. Salvatore

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

Source Unknown

You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most...you are beastly.

Alex Flinn

You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

Bryan Singer

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

William Shakespeare