But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

James Whitcomb Riley

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

J.K. Rowling

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

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The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Mary Caroline Richards

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Nancy Astor

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

John Pomfret

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Mason Cooley

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

Martin Lawrence

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Edmund Burke

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

Trisha Yearwood

Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Gilbert K. Chesterton