a young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Ernest Hemingway

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Thomas Aquinas

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Alan King

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

David Wilkerson

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it.

Gary Hamel

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Isabel Allende

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Erma Bombeck

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There's no limit to what you can dream. You the unexpected, you in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.

Cecelia Ahern

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

Lee Trevino