Misfortune does not always result in harm.

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

John Stuart Mill

It's not rocket science. It's social science.

Clement Mok

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

J.K. Rowling

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

John Green

If I didn't work as hard as I could, then I think it would be a bit like saying, 'God, thanks for giving me this ability, but I don't really care about it. I'm going to do something else, and I'm not going to work quite as hard.

Tim Tebow

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

Diablo Cody

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

Source Unknown

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.

Dhammapada

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

Eoin Colfer

I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

Morrissey