You're drinking in the joy of life,' Bear told her when she tried to explain why she was laughing. 'There's so much… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make… Usually one's cooking is better… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly,… — Claire Weekes Copy Share Image
It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached,… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
His lips hovered over hers. “No,” he snarled. Madison wasn’t sure to whom he was talking, but then his mouth was crushing… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Not every company went bankrupt. Not every bank needed TARP [Troubled Asset Relief Program]. So I'm very proud that JPMorgan, throughout that… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry about polar bears disappearing or… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation… Notwithstanding the military establishments… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
In the Gospel we have just heard, Jesus, the Master, teaches the crowds and the small group of his disciples by accommodating… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Walk in kindness toward the Earth and every living being. Without kindness and compassion for all of Mother Nature’s creatures, there can… — Sylvia Dolson Copy Share Image
It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his… — George Washington Copy Share Image
But I have an African or Indian approach to what I find. I like to make use of everything. I can't bear… — Eduardo Paolozzi Copy Share Image
If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person… — David Prosser Jr Copy Share Image
I took his hand, and suddely he yanked me―too roughly―right off the bed so that I thudded against his chest. "Just in… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
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I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image