Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

Religion and science are opposed...but only in the same sense as that in which my thumb and forefinger are opposed - and between the two, one can grasp everything.

William Bragg

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Publilius Syrus

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

Mahalia Jackson

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

Walter Lord

...because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...

Jon Fosse

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

Sam Kean

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

Terry Bradshaw

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them --their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Desmond Tutu

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

John Heywood

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)