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Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
Then there was Nico di Angelo. Dang, that kid gave Leo the freaky-deakies. He sat back in his leather aviator jacket, his… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
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What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm amazed that I can sit down, put a guitar in my hands and start playing kind of free style, and it… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
The world has lost a truly great soul today. Stephen Covey was a man whose 'work was love made visible.' He touched… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and… — Epifanio de los Santos Copy Share Image
When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
You demonstrate biblical love when you take steps to restore a fellow-believer overtaken in sin. This not only encourages a fallen believer… — John C. Broger Copy Share Image
Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
With people in corsets you need, an hour and a half in you have to give somebody something, you have to have… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To prepare youth for success in entrepreneurial (and free) cultures, education tends to emphasize originality, creativity, breadth, depth and leadership skills rather… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our… — Raimond Gaita Copy Share Image
Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image