Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!

C. Moorer

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

Glen Hansard

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Scott Turow

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Elizabeth Bowen

God was never created the economy.Men found it after banished from Eden.

Toba Beta

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

Paulo Coelho

Always when we walked, it was clear to me how much he loved nature, wild flowers, animals in their natural habitat and the simple pleasures of a beautiful sunset. My love for the environment did not develop out of a vacuum.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works indeed of genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washingtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares, though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic or the experimentalist, the economist or the engineer, though such too it includes within its scope. But a University training is the great ordinary means to an great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life. It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them.

John Henry Newman, Idea of a Uni

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

Edward Albee

People don't fail, they give up

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Francis H. Bradley

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

Roseanne Barr