It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin… — T-Bone Walker Copy Share Image
“Love and charity share the same root word (caritas). How is that possible, when everything in our recent history suggest they cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I pray the Pope [Francis] can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
My parents are the hardest-working people I ever knew: they always worked every day, all day; they had to come up with… — Peggy Whitson Copy Share Image
Meaningful relationships are worth more than hundred-dollar trees, and they deserve all the time, effort, and energy they need to become strong… — Lloyd D. Newell Copy Share Image
A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity… — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
As Americans, we have shown ourselves to have the greatest military on the face of the planet, but we are not so… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe… — John Green Copy Share Image
Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums.… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound… — Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking… — George Burns Copy Share Image
Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Of course, intersectionality theory is a confused muddle. It fights racism and sexism by classifying everyone according to race and sex. It… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
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