Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.

George Washington

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

George Gurdjieff

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

African Proverb

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Nicholas Dewolf

In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.the last portion of this quote is inscribed on his gravestonehttp://www.planbproductions.com/postnobills/reagan1.html

Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Lib

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

Justin Cronin

It is sometimes a comfort to me to think that the aeroplane is changing the conditions of warfare. In the next great war, we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

George Orwell

I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.

Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.

Kathie Lee Gifford

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

GeorgesLouis Leclerc Buffon

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

Story Musgrave

Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Bryant H. McGill