I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Kurt Russell

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

Munshi Premchand

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

Robert Half

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully

Thomas Carlyle

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

Jon Meacham

I squeezed my eyes shut and took several deep breaths, trying not to smell Jace in front of me, not to taste him on my lips. But it was useless. In that moment, Jace was everywhere. He was in my mind, he was in my heart, and he was in my memory. He smelled good. He tasted good. And the blissful aftershock still throbbing in my most sensitive places felt wonderful, when everything else in my life was an obstacle to be overcome.

Rachel Vincent

I've been through a lot as far as love.

Leighton Meester

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

William Graham Sumner

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Francis Quarles

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

Earl Wilson

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

Stephen King