I do not choose my listeners. What I mean is, I never write for my listeners. I think about my audience, but… — Henryk Gorecki Copy Share Image
The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and… — Harold Edward Holt Copy Share Image
It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
How can we trace out the links between actions that people take today and really long-term outcomes for humanity - outcomes that… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
There has at least been a serious effort on the Turkish side to prevent people from setting off for Europe. Recently, only… — Sebastian Kurz Copy Share Image
We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living - to… — Chuck Feeney Copy Share Image
When it comes to creating emotional wellbeing, we are only going to achieve this, I believe, if we help each other in… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Materialistic success can be explained quite simply. Those who succeed focus their attention on success - not on their talent. Remember these… — Brad Steiger Copy Share Image
The problem of moral change would appear to be one of presenting stimuli which are both sufficiently incongruous as to stimulate conflict… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Take a cup of coffee, keep adding sugar until you reach the point that you like it the most, and then when… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer… — Walter Prescott Webb Copy Share Image
Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Amid all the negativity at Newcastle, we achieved some great things. Finishing fifth in the Premier League with a great team was… — Alan Pardew Copy Share Image
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The pope is encouraging immigrants to come here. He's encouraging us to let them come here. He's encouraging us to stop any… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Hazael rose from his knees. It had to take extraordinary effort, yet somehow he managed a version of his lazy smile when… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“When we experience something that is difficult and requires significant time and effort, we are quick to think, This is supposed to… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I think of relationships as having a really safe place with someone where you are, and making an effort to show up… — Maggie Grace Copy Share Image
Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through… — William Cohen Copy Share Image
It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now,… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Good men sometimes make mistakes. A man of integrity will honestly face and correct his mistakes, and that is an example we… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
I also call my family and see what's going on with them before I start my day with interviews, rehearsals, or anything… — Heather Headley Copy Share Image
This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
