A science can diagnose a cancer and can even find a cure for it, but it can't, and a scientist will be… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen — the most complete — is Scholes.… — Xavi Copy Share Image
To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places,… — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But… — Clare Mulley Copy Share Image
Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Barack and I were both raised by families who didnt have much in the way of money or material possessions but who… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Consider in what way the industrial system developed upon capitalist lines. Why were a few rich men put with such ease into… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have… — Mabel Seeley 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.… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an… — Anne Sebba Copy Share Image
Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by… — Adelard of Bath Copy Share Image
I am convinced that wise planning is good. But plans, like material possessions, must always be held loosely. Yes - always! Plan… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro,… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
