My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

Victor Hugo

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Joel Osteen

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

William Shakespeare

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

Mae West

Bring the past, but only if you can build from it.

Dominico Scarlatti

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

George Burns

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.

John Anderson

Don't be humble, you're not that great.

Golda Meir

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Washington Irving

When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

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