It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Ovid

Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power

Phyllis Rose

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

Charles Stanley

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.

Charles Horton Cooley

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

Lascelles Abercrombie

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Jonathan Swift

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Erwin Rommel

What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.

Matthew Arnold

Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

Emma Bunton

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.

Carol Burnett