Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

George Bernard Shaw

It is not the position, but the disposition.

J. E. Dinger

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

Serena Williams

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

C. JoyBell C.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

Jon Corzine

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Barry Duncan

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.

Johannes P. Muller

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Anne Sexton

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence

John Green

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Ada Louise Huxtable