That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

Rick Perry

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

George Bernard Shaw

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

Rita Rudner

Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Margaret Mitchell

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

William Cullen Bryant

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Marlon Brando

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Florence Scovel Shinn

If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.

Jeremy London

Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be, and know that your purpose will always be best when defined by your faith in him

Karen Kingsbury

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

Daniel J. Boorstin

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

Stan Brakhage