I do must decidedly object, and have a most invincible and powerful repugnance to that frequent reference to the Almighty in small matters, which so many excellent persons consider necessary in the education of children. I think it monstrous to hold the source of inconceivable mercy and goodness perpetually up to them as an avenging and wrathful God who - making them in His wisdom children before they are men and women - is to punish them awfully for every little venial offence which is almost a necessary part of that stage of life.

Having acknowledged the measure of the good to be pleasure, i.e., beauty, the European upper classes went back in their comprehension of art to the gross conception of the primitive Greeks which Plato had already condemned. And with this understanding of life, a theory of art was formulated.

Leo Tolstoy

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

Nicholas Sparks

I lived that life for real, so to talk about it was like a joke, you know what I mean?

Tone Loc

For the whole year long I seeAll the wonders of faithful NatureStill worked for the love of me;Winds wander, and dews drip earthward,Rain falls, suns rise and set,Earth whirls, and all but to prosperA poor little violet.

James Russell Lowell, The Changl

This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.

Paul Ryan

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

John C. Maxwell

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

Source Unknown

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Mencius (Mengzi Mengtse)

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Jean de la Bruyere