I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“After misery follow, or are at least promised to in the unwritten manuscripts of Gods, great things. Sometimes, that great thing can… — Nina Copy Share Image
“When one becomes engrossed with the mind, there will be happiness and there will be misery too. And when there is no… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to… — Almeida Garrett Copy Share Image
“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“There always are and always will be some strange personalities in our country, whatever the conditions, who though peaceful and not at… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden… — August Spies Copy Share Image
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Once you start ignoring your enemies they will be disappointed because they will no longer have the POWER to make you angry… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that.… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
“Well, I was on the slippery slope into the abyss of love, companionship, and happiness—and you know where that leads. Misery.” — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU. — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today,… — William of Malmesbury Copy Share Image
“The whole world is indeed trapped by misery. What is the misery about? Due to ignorance of one’s own Real Self (agnanta).… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If Putin and those around him had been smart enough to go in a different direction... The country was ready. The conditions… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
I dont want to pull the feel sorry for me card i Dont want to pull the I need you card I… — Nathan T Copy Share Image
Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I miss the bad things, the way you hate me. I miss the screaming, the way that you blame me. I miss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Summer makes me suicidal. It sucks all the magick out of life, and even sleeping becomes an exercise in fruitless brutality. I… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image