One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits -- and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

Simone Weil

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James Garfield

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

Emma Thompson

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Dean Inge

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Barbara Sher

You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat.

Deborah Boliver Boehm

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

Alexander Pope

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Sir Thomas Browne

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

Daniel Radcliffe

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.

Linda McCartney

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri