I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if… — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the… — Ed McClanahan Copy Share Image
Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times… — Lionel Terray Copy Share Image
Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary… — C. P. Scott Copy Share Image
I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, can no longer reconstitute itself and we refuse to admit… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Since I have fought against these Jewish-Soviet ideas in Germany, since I have conquered and stamped out this peril, I fancy that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more… — George Will Copy Share Image
Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way.… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Animals are not just other species. They are other nations. And we murder them at our peril. The peace map is drawn… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me...you will lead… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of… — Estwick Evans Copy Share Image
Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry -… — Garrett P. Serviss Copy Share Image
A true home is one of the most sacred of places. It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the world's… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
