Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Francis Bacon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Goodne

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

Stephen King

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Arnold Palmer

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

William Feather

Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.

John Steinbeck

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Karl Popper

Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.

Jose Mourinho

Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntarily or through the draft, as combat soldiers. We know of no comparable ways of training women and girls, and we have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent warfare from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. This is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.

Margaret Mead

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

Kim Weston

But in seven weeks it was done, the frontiers decided.A continent for better or worse divided.The next day he sailed for England, where he quickly forgotThe case as a good lawyer must. Return he would not,Afraid, as he told his Club, that he might get shot....penned after Lord Mountbatten entrusted Sir Cyril Radcliffe, with drawing up the boundaries between India & Pakistan.

W. H. Auden, poem titled Partiti