Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

George Mcdonald

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

Malala Yousafzai

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Queen Victoria

Stern is the on-look of necessity,Not without shudder may a human handGrasp the mysterious urn of destiny.

Friedrich von Schiller, The Deat

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

Marguerite Duras

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

Greta Gerwig

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

Douglas Hofstadter

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

John Tillotson

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, There you are and those who say, Here I am

Abigail Van Buren

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

C. C. Phelps