The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest. (Michael)
Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future. (Andrew Schneider)
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. (David Starr Jordan)
Agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure. (Matrix, The)
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. (Vincent Van Gogh)
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason. (John Kord Lagemann)
I told you he had a cash register mind. Rings every time he opens his mouth. (Dennis O'Keefe)
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies. (William Shakespeare)
Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer. (Barnard Elliot Bee)
Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please. (Benjamin Franklin)
How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest. (Junius)
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. (Tallulah Bankhead)
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. (Kingman Brewster, Jr.)
To give anything less than your best is to give away the gift. (Steve Prefontaine)
Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young. (Sir Arthur Wing Pinero)
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. (Jane Wagner)
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. (Daniel Patrick Moynihan)
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him. (William Carleton)
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy. (Mahatma Gandhi)