The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Proverb

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Sara Teasdale

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Lauren Holly

A small family is soon provided for.

English Proverb

My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.

Rick Scott

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.

John Clayton

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

John Green

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Muhammad Ali

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Th

The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.

Aldous Huxley

You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

Barry Manilow