The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair. — Margaret Turnbull Copy Share Image
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
[A] good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
So [Vladimir] Putin is a mess. He's committed all sort of murderous thuggery, and I am opposed to the way Putin conducts… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself.… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Here is the key to existence. Are you listening? Here is the key to existence; when I tell you this you will… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god,… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image