Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's… — William James Copy Share Image
If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
They will speak of things that are spiritual and beautiful and of things that are practical and utilitarian; they will mix up… — Percy Knauth Copy Share Image
Christmas represents love and mercy. It was ushered in by the star of hope and remains forever consecrated by the sacrifice of… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finish. I dinna like to scare… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs… — Marie Colvin Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and… — Carleton S. Coon Copy Share Image
If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Failure is a few Errors in judgment repeated everyday. The man says, Well I didn't walk around the block today and it… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny and pretty short. To me, the quintessential Army Man joke was… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
As a man - no longer a teenager that can play those really young roles, but as a man - I think… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays—… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
At the same time that she [nature] solicits him [man] to follow her not only into her open walks, but likewise to… — Henry Kett Copy Share Image
There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Someone told me once that blues is like whiskey. They keep whiskey in the barrel for so many years, and then they… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How shall we define occultism? The word is derived from the Latin occultus, hidden; so that it is the study of the… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Education is a matter of the spirit. No wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
We are now enjoying the liberation that comes with not having to be organization men and women, and that's fabulous. But there… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Ten Things You Shouldn't Say on a Date. 1. You're wearing that? 2. Something smells funny. 3. Where's the Tylenol? 4. And… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly,… — Katie Leung Copy Share Image
An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others.… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image