Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had… — Gabriela Sabatini Copy Share Image
The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves. — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I… — Sally Field Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
“With each glare words escape me, yet no ears care to listen. It is cold here with her stare, judging every affair.… — H.S. Crow Copy Share Image
Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The things we sing about are timeless. Political affairs and social situations come and go. But if you're singing about empowerment and… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
We're all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I can't judge anyone… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We won't be having an affair." I stare dumbly, certain I just heard an organ in my body crack in my chest.… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
In education, it is said that the state must impose schooling on all children, else the parents and communities will neglect it.… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Not everybody here is rich. Not everybody here is independently wealthy. Not everybody here is free from any kind of economic concern.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“ lover , n . Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always being translated from the French.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“My husband ran off with his secretary. His male secretary. the only passion I have lately seems to center around buying a… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I think reality television, unless it's inspirational, which it very rarely is, I think it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing state of affairs that… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril. — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
