At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

After all he is only a man, that is to say capable of little and of much, of all and of nothing; he is neither angel nor brute, but man.

Blaise Pascal

After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.

H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impactupon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.

Sasha Azevedo

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Henry Fielding

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

Diane Ravitch

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Plutarch

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

Princess of Wales Diana

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

Abe Lemons

There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstrous creatures multiply and destroy each other. Huge crabs devour fish and are devoured in their turn. Hideous shapes of living things, not created to be seen by human eyes wander in this twilight. Vague forms of antennae, tentacles, fins, open jaws, scales, and claws, float about there, quivering, growing larger, or decomposing and perishing in the gloom, while horrible swarms of swimming things prowl about seeking their prey.To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

Victor Hugo

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Benjamin Disraeli

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

Chevy Chase

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt