…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful: 1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If someone wants to order a cake, I might say, 'OK, when do you want to eat it? What time are your… — Sherry Yard Copy Share Image
Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually,… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to… — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You must never give up. You must remember that you have to take risks in order to achieve anything and sometimes you… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Remember to stop as often as necessary to re-connect your energy. Stay full, stay in a state of love. Remember that once… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
In order to handle emotional pain I cry. I vent. I zone out in front of the TV to escape. Then, after… — Trista Sutter Copy Share Image
I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the semi-covert… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
People who thing that they are getting something for nothing, by having government provide what they would otherwise have to buy in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky . The glory of science is not in a truth more… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she’d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
When a man receives something Divine, in his heart he rejoices; but when he receives something diabolic, he is disturbed. The Christian… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image