I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain than an ignorant person… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Men,” she said as she took my arm and led me to the brightly lit room. “They forget we need to see… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth… — Ilan Stavans Copy Share Image
The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
When I look at Lake Michigan each July, I imagine the men of the Indianapolis visible on the horizon; dark heads, struggling… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or… — Benjamin A. Rogge Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all;… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
“—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
No, Susanna, " he said. "I cannot love you just a little. If that's what you want, you must find a different… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win…This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands…But people who… — Kenneth Roberts Copy Share Image
The whole of existence is dancing, except man. The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement; movement there is, certainly,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I made a vow to God [in 2010], after so many letdowns and the relationship with my ex, I knew I really… — Jessica White Copy Share Image
And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You never loved me, nobody never loved me. I wanted to be loved, I wanted somebody to be kind to me -… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think the idea that women have all this wonderful emotion is a myth, as well as the fact that men do… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image