Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at Hermione in Transfiguration. He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Girls were very strange sometimes.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

John Philip Sousa

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

Anne McCaffrey

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

Graham Nash

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

Janis Karpinski

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

Jane Harman

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

George Bernard Shaw

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.

Bertrand Russell

Be considerate with the Earth. More people have to use it when you're gone.

Steve Maraboli

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Mark Twain

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.

Proverb