Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Dante Alighieri

If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.

Neal Stephenson

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Ronald Reagan

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

Anthony Doerr

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, so. What did you think?

Steven Wright

There are two things parents should give their children: roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

Tommy Mottola

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

Cat Deeley

Whether one or many, I must declare my faith that it is better for India to discard violence altogether even for defending her borders

Mahatma Gandhi

I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.

Rainbow Rowell