Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

Thomas Henry Huxley

What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

Paul Wellstone

Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion. 1 I know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively. 2

Thomas Jefferson

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

Robert B. Laughlin

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

Bob Dylan

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

Pitbull

There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.

Yousuf Karsh

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry.The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

Will Durant

Darling, everyone is beautiful in her ownway, and I am a fairy.

Gail Carson Levine

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

Stephen King