As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you.… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health… — Archie Kalokerinos Copy Share Image
Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
[There's] a joke that I've done forever: 'Nowadays they say that the largest majority of people will be Latino and you'll tell… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I just want to continue adding walls to my craft as an artist and business man. I never want to cap off,… — Eskeerdo Copy Share Image
Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“Anger is the only emotion many men allow themselves to express. Growing up, we are taught to avoid anything that is seen… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about… — William Morris Copy Share Image
It was worth it to serve alongside my brothers and sisters in arms. And it was worth it to be part of… — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My passion today is not only justice for the Black man and woman of America, but for all those who cry out… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Well, Bill [Bill Hickok] was a pretty good shot. But he could not shoot as quick as half a dozen men we… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
When you look at men's fashion magazines, you see a lot of well-groomed guys in suits, but very rarely do you see… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image