We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you.

Cassandra Clare

I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more.

Paul Bettany

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

John Calvin

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Ishmael Reed

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

John Lahr

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Wallace Stevens

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Steve Jobs

Her in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

Jane Austen

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

H. Stanley Judd

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Satchel Paige

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

David Dinkins

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

Haruki Murakami