People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Samuel Rutherford

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

Mary Gordon

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Publilius Syrus

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Donald Knuth

Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

Jeffrey Kluger

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Arsene Wenger

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share.

Steve Maraboli

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

Karen Armstrong

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

Elizabeth Prentiss

Nature can do more than physicians.

Oliver Cromwell

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Claude M. Bristol