The moments of perfect pleasure in Johnson's songs, and the beauty of those songs, remind one that it is not the simple presence of evil that is unbearable; what is unbearable is the impossibility of reconciling the facts of evil with the beauty of the world.

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So strong was the preconception of absolute space and time in the scientific mentality of those days, that Lorentz did not realize the grand transcendence of what he had discovered, and contented himself with remodeling the edifice of Physics -- instead of rebuilding it with a new foundation.

Felix Alba-Juez

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellency becomes a reality.

Joe Paterno

The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

My secret is practice

David Beckham

I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.

Jennifer Ellison

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Thomas Jefferson

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Douglas Dunn

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Ch.

As long as people believe in the written word and a good story.. They will believe in me.

Solange nicole