Albert Einstein once reported, "Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds." If you want to achieve your own greatness,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Work does not kill you, food does. God does not kill you, food does. Food is your first and last enemy. If… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at… — Roger Sessions Copy Share Image
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
I was just thinking – today is the first and last day of forever. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in… — Herbert Bayard Swope Copy Share Image
Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal."… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's so funny - my mom when I am dating someone new, all she will get is the name, first and last,… — Nico Tortorella Copy Share Image
Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I've thought about it more than a thousand times. It was a thousand times worse, so I suppressed it, I suppressed it… — Yoon Sang-hyun Copy Share Image
I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image