“Our ability to appropriately process messages becomes overloaded. When we try to process too much too fast, our sensibilities become dulled and… — Meg Meeker Copy Share Image
On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch… — David Lange Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true,… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jesus has no tenderness toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin a man in service to Him. If God brings to… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use,… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever."… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn’t like America,… — janet fitch Copy Share Image
Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome...was a… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I am deeply saddened for the people of Ferguson who woke up to see parts of their community in ruins. No one… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I probably shouldn't do a straight drama. I'd probably ruin it. I don't know. But, I'd love the opportunity to try. I'm… — Steve Pink Copy Share Image
Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I tell my kids no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes. But the world is so competitive that if you're stuck on drugs… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power is very sublime. It makes a man who… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts. And I… — Paul Walker Copy Share Image