I can pinpoint the exact moment when I first began to think about what profession I should go into. It was 1978.… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
For a black person who's Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that's a completely different relationship with being… — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My dad and I are both men of faith and we realize that we're not self-made men. We've had a lot of… — Matthew Slater Copy Share Image
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It gives [a man] the incentive to develop his dormant potential so that when he becomes a part of the brotherhood of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man… — Geoffrey Jellicoe Copy Share Image
While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think the Americans are dying to leave Iraq. I was against the war but longed for the fall of Saddam; the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in… — William James Copy Share Image
This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms… — Paris Reidhead Copy Share Image
Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A lot of people say if they could go back in time they would not change anything. But, to be honest with… — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much.… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Peoples of the entire world need to hear these words. Their conscience needs to grow in the certainty that Someone exists who… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job. The ultimate weapon in the war between the sexes: the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
God, I got lucky. If I'd hurt it, it would have put me out of practice for a while.” Smiling, he returned… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image