A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

John Dryden

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

Howard Aiken

untuk hidup sendirian, orang harus menjadi binatang atau dewa--kata Aristoteles. ada yang ketiga: orang harus menjadi keduanya, yaitu seorang filsuf

Friedrich Nietzsche

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.

William Hague

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Mark Twain

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

John C. Calhoun

I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

Henry David Thoreau

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My pipe is out, my glass is dry;My fire is almost ashes too;But once again, before you go,And I prepare to meet the New;Old Year! a parting word that's true,For we've been comrades, you and I--I thank God for each day of you;There! bless you now! Old Year, good-bye!

Robert William Service, The Pass

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Richard Wright

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.

Abraham Lincoln

I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.

Rebecca Romijn