Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

Havelock Ellis

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

Billy Burke

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Tom Sharp

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Tony Martin

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

Mitch McConnell

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

Tiger Woods

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

Alex Kapranos

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Karl Marx

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

Gordon Gee

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

Robert Smith