Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization."


-Vergere
MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER ...you must understand that not even the Jedi know all there is to be known about the Force; no mort...
MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER His agony somehow became an invisible hand, stretching out through the Force, a hand that found her,...
MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER ... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that ...
MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins.
It always wins because it is ever...
MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER If you take out the team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that?
MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies ...
MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER There's a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a ...
MATTHEW STOVER Perhaps the most significant thing George Lucas did in creating 'Star Wars' was to fictional...
MATTHEW STOVER 'The New Jedi Order' was a pure publishing project: a single massive story - virtually one h...
MATTHEW STOVER I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn'...
JIM WOODRING Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of ...
JIM WOODRING Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time ...
JIM WOODRING Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers...
JIM WOODRING When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the...
JIM WOODRING When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond...
JIM WOODRING In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps di...
JIM WOODRING Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hid...
JIM WOODRING You just saw the story of our season. Dominate, dominate, dominate and we break down at the 18-yard ...
JOHN WOODRING He's done, so we have to move on.
JOHN WOODRING Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious...
TERESA STOVER He has so much going for him. Not just on the mat. I've tried to tell him that athletics is somethin...
JEFF STOVER It's actually just a sock. We all have spare socks lying around the house and you just stuff the soc...
MISSY STOVER Couples saw me and pointed out I was wearing an Ashworth shirt. They (Ashworth) are one of his spons...
DONATHON STOVER Responsive leaders prefer knowledge and information to be spread as widely as possible among the pop...
TERESA STOVER Manipulators rarely advise you to seek new and diverse information or to ‘learn and research for yo...
TERESA STOVER The most obvious and condescending tell-tale sign that manipulation is taking place is that no one t...
TERESA STOVER There were whole streets of devastation.
BEVERLY STOVER Annexations are driven by individuals and neighborhoods. I don't think this should be looked at as a...
JAMES STOVER They're all pros. This is no amateur deal. I have played with most of them for many, many years.
RICHARD STOVER We have moose around town as well as bear, elk and mountain lions, but we don't have moose attacks. ...
GENE STOVER It just skirted around us.
BEVERLY STOVER The one from Louisiana is in the mail.
BEVERLY STOVER It was a humanitarian gesture for the benefit of the residents.
JAMES STOVER From all appearances ? the Pfizer deal is better for Warner-Lambert shareholders, ... But you know w...
RICHARD STOVER It's the census bureau, so we figured they would respond to statistical information. We've gotten a ...
JAMES STOVER As a result of this flight, the military remained in Yuma. Today the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma a...
JAMES STOVER It is always difficult. At what level do you accept anecdotal evidence? We have enough that it's a c...
JAMES STOVER We paid for the Census Bureau to give us an accurate count. We don't believe that's an accurate coun...
JAMES STOVER It's to determine who was counted and who hasn't been counted.
JAMES STOVER Tiger grabbed his (the child's) stuff. I didn't get his autograph, but just walking along beside him...
DONATHON STOVER I didn't even know who he was. I didn't find out until later who he was. After taking the photo, he ...
DONATHON STOVER I need skill players at every position and they just have to be mentally tough and play from point o...
DAVE STOVER There are no easy games.
DAVE STOVER Part of it is psychological and it's mentally [tough] to get over the hump. The last couple of years...
DAVE STOVER I try to be truthful with the girls, but on a given night, anything can happen.
DAVE STOVER He was there until last call, and the next morning, he's attacked by a moose while he's walking to c...
GENE STOVER It's not a full-fledged program that is automatically going to be rolled out across the nation.
LAUREN STOVER Right now it looks like a great program. The aviation industry has widely accepted this.
LAUREN STOVER (Myers) got caught in a front headlock right to his back, and Jacoby's a wrestler who is very diffic...
JEFF STOVER A lot of District 6 coaches were talking about (the weeklong break) because we didn't have a real go...
JEFF STOVER We have five going. If you looked at it and didn't know anything else, that's probably what you woul...
JEFF STOVER It was a great win for him. He didn't have a lot of success last year and needed confidence. This wi...
JEFF STOVER They did an outstanding job. Just getting here, it's a tough weekend. I feel bad for those guys. The...
JEFF STOVER When he gets them there, he's a guy who can keep them on their back. He just has that ability when h...
JEFF STOVER He got a tough draw from the start because he got beat a couple times at districts.
JEFF STOVER If we would have gotten Kane through, I would have been OK. Nothing went his way. I can't really com...
JEFF STOVER Coming in as your first match, since he had a bye, that's a tough draw. I didn't think he was real s...
JEFF STOVER These are all activities that parents can do along with their child or supply materials and walk awa...
MISSY STOVER I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spo...
MATTHEW SWEET Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
MATTHEW STEWART I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
MATTHEW BRODERICK Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends....
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD After a storm comes a calm.
MATTHEW HENRY The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I ...
MATTHEW SETTLE An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative...
MATTHEW SCULLY I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know w...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completel...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
MATTHEW QUICK Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
MATTHEW SHIPP Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.
MATTHEW QUICK I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me i...
MATTHEW QUICK Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they&...
MATTHEW DESMOND Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, '...
MATTHEW LILLARD I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.
MATTHEW MORRISON Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
MATTHEW MACFADYEN I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly rememb...
MATTHEW RHYS I've always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and be...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff,...
MATTHEW SETTLE Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.
MATTHEW MCGRORY A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these ...
MATTHEW DESMOND In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I&...
MATTHEW RHYS Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They'r...
MATTHEW LILLARD Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dra...
MATTHEW SCULLY As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted ...
MATTHEW MACFADYEN We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them t...
MATTHEW STEWART I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just wan...
MATTHEW RHYS Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on n...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
MATTHEW ASHFORD The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ...
MATTHEW QUICK Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Liv...
MATTHEW ARNOLD On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din! But 'twas not love w...
MATTHEW ARNOLD A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.
MATTHEW PRIOR The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, ro...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
MATTHEW PRIOR We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless...
MATTHEW SIMPSON For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior.
MATTHEW PRIOR Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
MATTHEW GREEN Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives: Lay...
MATTHEW PRIOR You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I kno...
MATTHEW QUICK Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...
MATTHEW LEWIS We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power.
MATTHEW BOULTON There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teac...
MATTHEW DICKS Dare to Differ
MATTHEW GOLDFINGER Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And ...
MATTHEW SCULLY Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of making...
MATTHEW FOX In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
MATTHEW PRIOR And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
MATTHEW PRIOR Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
MATTHEW PRIOR To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S...
MATTHEW PRIOR Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
MATTHEW PRIOR Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
MATTHEW PRIOR One lesson we can learn from pre-industrial peoples is the power of storytelling. I am struck by how...
MATTHEW FOX Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
MATTHEW PRIOR With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden a...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
MATTHEW PRIOR With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD 'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly sti...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLD But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The ends must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.
MATTHEW FOX Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD That she's the worst driver in the history of drivers. If I know she's going somewhere, I stay home....
MATTHEW PERRY This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
MATTHEW GREEN Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Or to some coffee-house I stray,
For news, the manna of the day,
And from the hipp
MATTHEW GREEN The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just oursel...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather t...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder pas...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.
MATTHEW PRIOR Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, se...
MATTHEW FOX At night astronomers agree.
MATTHEW PRIOR I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair; And they, that lovely face...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie, Hush, ye wi...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.
MATTHEW PRIOR Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD To err is human.
MATTHEW PRIOR The end must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Brave...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a l...
MATTHEW ARNOLD What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die.
MATTHEW ARNOLD God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still, Out-top...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst! ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Six years--six little years--six drops of time.
MATTHEW ARNOLD They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.
MATTHEW ARNOLD This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
MATTHEW ARNOLD With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden an...
MATTHEW ARNOLD What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath; Tonight it doth inherit Th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
MATTHEW ARNOLD Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prev...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - Matthew Prior,
MATTHEW PRIOR The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!) Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR They talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD [Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLD If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: "Eternity, be thou ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ...
MATTHEW HENRY Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an...
MATTHEW DESMOND I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ...
MATTHEW DESMOND The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
MATTHEW DESMOND We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable h...
MATTHEW DESMOND