I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“We could not swim, but now we are swimming— We have to swim. It is not fair. It is never fair. We… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I can read significance into tiny, tiny things. If I'd met someone 10 years ago and not seen them again, and then… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
“What did you see when you died?" He has that tenative half smile, like he's almost embarrassed by what he's saying. "Because… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the… — Allan Pinkerton Copy Share Image
“The more it changes, the more it's the same thing. But overall, things have changed. I say changed and not "changed for… — John Goode Copy Share Image
There are people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“With every choice, even the choice of inactivity, we must shut the door to a host of alternate futures. Each step we… — Michael David Lukas Copy Share Image
“Tarkovsky was right. The responsibility of the artist is to stir people’s hearts and minds toward loving others: to find the light… — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“If we were always given a choice as to every path presented us in life, a multitude of roads leading to priceless… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major'… — John Scott Copy Share Image
“Cold comradeship do stars provide. They light the closer, inner side Of night's vast weight, which, chill and clear, Pulls on us… — McKenzie Bodkin Copy Share Image
“I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the other faces in… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The outcome of my cumulative life’s work is still undetermined. Chance, fate, attitude, aptitude, and preparedness to pursue new opportunities will regulate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world,… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... the human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart… — Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: "For heaven's sake,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Remember that no matter where you are, it is there that you are supposed to be. Today is not a result of… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
