Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of the State. It is for this reason that I have never been in favor of restricting their representation in our State Senate to a strictly population basis. It is the same reason that the founding fathers of our country gave balanced representation to the States of the Union, equal representation in one House and proportionate representation based upon population in the other.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Taylor Caldwell

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

Vance Havner

Surfers have the most attitude.

Shaun White

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

Al Lopez

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Max De Pree, "Leadership Is an A

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Jules Renard

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Henry David Thoreau

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

Christian Bale

Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters;But when low dunces will affront,What man alive can stand the brunt?http://www.netpoets.com/classic/poems/062008.htm

Jonathan Swift, The Sick Lion an