Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

Your schooling may be over but remember that your education still continues.

We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues.

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.

I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.

You could have all the tools in the world, but if you really don't want to be there, or if there's something that's off course that's playing on your mind... the game of golf is so mental, and if you don't have everything in the right order, it's very difficult to win golf tournaments.

There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spandex and all that, but you have to be light on your feet to do both, and you have to remember choreography.

I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.

You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.

Some celebrities like to get behind water conservation or helping the homeless get back on their feet. Me? Body grooming control: that's what I like to step behind 100 percent.

We have 11 great potato flavors, and customers have been clamoring for tortilla. For over a year, we worked to develop the four flavors of tortilla popchips: chili limon, nacho cheese, ranch and salsa. They're made with traditional stoneground masa, are gluten-free, and have less than half the fat of other chips.

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, this day let me make a sound beginning.

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who don’t.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

Mr. Romney is quick to uphold rules great and small. During primary debates, when his rivals spoke out of turn or exceeded their allotted time, he would sometimes lecture them. When supporters ask Mr. Romney to sign dollar bills or American flags, he refuses and often gives them a little lesson about why doing so is against the law.

But for a few twists of fate, the gasoline engine we know today might have just been a small footnote in history.