I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion,… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Social media provides us the opportunity to think before we 'speak', giving us a better shot at reasoned dialog. So it's not… — Paul Biedermann Copy Share Image
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You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give the… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
When it comes to love, everyone wants to receive it, but at the end of the day, you don't get to receive… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
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I was the enemy of the major studio. I believed in one man - one film. I believed one man should make… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Never give up. I do believe it is harder for female directors. I have been lucky to receive support from the Sundance… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
ll K Hamilton Some days the lion eats you, but some times you shove your arm down it's throat and pull it's… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe. Their ability to make us feel like… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
You will be getting a haircut, won't you?" Halt ran his hand through his hair. It was getting a little long, he… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave… — Martin Fleischmann Copy Share Image
It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
You must give what will cost you something. This is giving not just what you can live without, but what you can't… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image