It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

William Shakespeare

He Oliver Cromwell in a furious manner, bid the Speaker leave his chair; told the house That they had sat long enough, unless they had done more good; and that it was not fit they should sit as a parliament any longer, and desired them to go away.

Oliver Cromwell

The progress that's made... in any argument or in any discussion is by confrontation. That's a dialectical fact. People say oh let's have less heat and more light, fatuously. There's only one source of light. It happens to be heat.

Christopher Hitchens

Read to lead in order to succeed.

Habeeb Akande

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

Carroll Shelby

It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.

Brendon Urie

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Kahlil Gibran, "Anthem of Humani

Obedience is better than sacrifice.

Bible

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Alben W. Barkley

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Jonathan Edwards

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

Herman Melville