Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
Beloved, if any unholiness exists in the nature, it is not there by the consent of the Spirit of God. If unholiness… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It could be the old man I see at the store or the chick I see walking down the block. Normal people… — Mic Geronimo Copy Share Image
One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything… — Alistair Beaton Copy Share Image
It’s hard to say. I don’t want to limit myself by saying one thing or another. I couldn’t have imagined the path… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
We are people who lived in absence of freedom. We know how precious it is. I want to give all these people… — Kang Chol-hwan Copy Share Image
In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call… — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Bible says that in the last days that it will be like labor pains. As a woman is ready to give… — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I go on the bus, I walk. A friend left his car recently at my house and I took it out one… — Vincent Kartheiser Copy Share Image
The Constitution says the President shall nominate, not maybe he could, maybe he can't, he shall nominate. Implicit in the Constitution is… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
(on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to… — Tomi Ungerer Copy Share Image
