Newborn babies can't do much on their own-They can't eat or walk or talk on the phone-But every parent is sure their creation is without a doubt a tremendous sensation.

It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.

Terry Pratchett

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Mark Twain

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

Steve Jobs

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

Wayne Rooney

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

John Ruskin

I didn't wait for Luck. I raced after it with a truck.

A.A. Bell

Let me put it this way, my father believed in a righteous God. Deus volt, that was his motto- 'because God wills it.' It was the Crusaders' motto, and they went into battle and were slaughtered just like my father. And when I saw him lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.

Cassandra Clare

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Stephen Chbosky

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Pericles

Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.

Nastia Liukin

I didn't set out to be famous if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

Sam Worthington

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Hans J. Morgenthau