To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

Stu Jackson

In the midst of life we are in debt.

Ethel Watts Mumford

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

Donny Osmond

Something else has happened with computers.

Seth Lloyd

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Thomas De Quincey

To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power.

Vimalia Mcclure

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

Jon Stewart

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

Mark Knopfler

Until they throw the money changers out of the temple of art, it will never be a real temple.

Leo Tolstoy

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.

Albert Einstein

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

Julie Burchill