Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
There are many different types of kisses. There's a passionate kiss of farewell - like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
Certainly, possessions, money, and power can give a momentary thrill, the illusion of being happy, but they end up possessing us and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
Odors can be highly transitory, depending on the air currents. If this is happening in your house, ask if there are any… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Our children are our most cherished possession. In their early years, we must make sure they get a healthy start in life.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession… — Hammurabi Copy Share Image
But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
We packed up all the worldly possessions we could carry with us and took the next flight to Hawaii from Washington. It… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty,… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
A lot of people assume I have a great hat collection, but kids steal my hats at every show. I've had all… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should… — William James Copy Share Image
“We should not fear the fragility of truth, for it creates openness to correction, learning, and growth. It fosters empathy, making inquiry,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or… — Hanan al-Shaykh Copy Share Image
In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile,… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
... for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that.… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Happiness doesn't come from making a fortune and owning lots of possessions. 'Stuff' doesn't bring happiness. Family, friends, good health and the… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My fashion is my most prized possession for two reasons: 1) because it is a visualization of all the hard work I've… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
