When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Dar Williams

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Joseph Brodsky

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein

Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.

Jess C. Scott

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Tom Hopkins

What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

Natasha Josefowitz

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

Paul Berg

God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.

Proverb

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

Joseph Joubert

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

Orson Scott Card

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Buddha

Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.

Coleman Dowell