As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

Jodi Picoult

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

Rose Elizabeth Bird

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Joyce Cary

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

C.S. Lewis

When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way.

Thomas 'Wayne' Brazell

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Goldwin Smith

I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

J.D. Salinger, Teddy, 1954

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never -- in anything great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Sir Winston Churchill

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

Solomon Short

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

Jim Davis

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

Susan Orlean