Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don

Mary Kay Ash

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Walter Scott

Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.

Bob Filner

Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

Ogden Nash

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

Jeffrey Kluger

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out

Mark Twain

Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

Ernest Gaines

We have to understand the world can only be grasped by action, not by comtemplation. The hand is more important than the eye....The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Jacob Bronowski

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

Andrew Sullivan