University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Jeremy Bentham

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Dr. Porsche

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

Niklaus Wirth

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

William Shakespeare

I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Ann Richards

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

Edith Summerskill

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

Rob Sheffield

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

She is a beautiful creature, but beauty doesn't equal good and it certainly doesn't equal sane.

Carrie Jones

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Margaret Thatcher

With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.

Barbara Brown Taylor