There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.

Voltaire

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

Ricky Skaggs

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

William Hazlitt

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

Mike Leigh

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Edmund Burke

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

Robert Mueller

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

Scott Brown

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Virginia Woolf

Sometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed.

John Green

Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly.Build an eye.

Warren Ellis

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Henry David Thoreau