I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.' World conquest-possession of the whole universe-given to the meek, of all people!… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born... Thus, to know humanity, understand earth. To know earth, understand heaven.… — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“If someone dies of anything other than extreme old age and natural causes, and often even then the death leaves a great… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Galatians 5:24 says that those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh (also called the sinful nature) with its passions… — Brenna Kate Simonds Copy Share Image
The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“It would have been difficult to say what was the nature of this look, and whence proceeded the flame that flashed from… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Barry had done it with her, the girl I loved, and it had meant nothing to him; Tanya would die and no… — James Franco Copy Share Image
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing.… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Such debates [about the nature of Scripture], in my view, distract attention from the real point of what the Bible is there… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“You will study the wisdom of the past, for in a wilderness of conflicting counsels, a trail has there been blazed. You… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
“... nature did not make us to feel too good for too long (which would be no good for the survival of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Lord, you call us out of captivity into the freedom of your beloved community. As we pass through the wilderness spaces of… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Kingship was the supreme form of government, and was believed to be in the natural order of things. It did not need… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break… — Pink Copy Share Image
“For those of you out there today who have already been through hard times and are desperate for a word of encouragement,… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
[A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of… — Arthur Trudeau Copy Share Image
“First, we think all truth is beautiful, no matter how hideous its face may seem. We accept all of nature, without any… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“Is it to be supposed that Nature has not bestowed upon me sufficient imagination to invent a Utopia too? Is it for… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“I only know two types of readers: The vultures and the birds. The vultures are constantly reading books written by dead authors,… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Inferno was for learning about the nature of our sins. Purgatorio is for learning how to overcome our tendencies to fall victim… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“It is in the nature of things to be lost and not otherwise. Think of how little has been salvaged from the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image