Now, if we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object [] If a transtemporal, transfinite good is our real destiny, then any other good on which our desire fixes must be in some degree fallacious, must bear at best only a symbolical relation to what will truly satisfy.

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

Vince Flynn

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

Jane Siberry

Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

Bashar al-Assad

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

Trishelle Cannatella

Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.

Linus Pauling

It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

Cato The Elder

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

E. W. Howe

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb

Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

Larry David

Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.

Jason Aldean

I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

Pieter Zeeman