Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of… — Owen Arthur Copy Share Image
When a society is criticised by outsiders, its members wince but shrug their shoulders. 'What you can expect from strangers?' is the… — Michela Wrong Copy Share Image
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“People are who they are. We make strangers into the image of who we need them to be. 1. Question: What do… — Allan G. Hunter Copy Share Image
I stopped caring about you because you showed me what happens when someone really becomes important for you. either the person becomes… — Aviex Sy Copy Share Image
The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. If he is a stranger… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There's a truly unbelievable story in the paper today, that a young brother and sister... have been turned down for adoption by… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
If I have the same plan to go into the streets, find random strangers, use art-historical referent from their - from the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
My true inspirations are my kids and my husband. I'm also inspired by stories of my extended family, friends, and even strangers… — Trista Sutter Copy Share Image
Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
1. Don't be boring. 2. Be able to pass the airport test; be interesting enough to carry on a 3 hour conversation… — Michael Bell Copy Share Image
They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion… — William Law Copy Share Image
Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Dear Mr. Stranger, I saw you once and wished that ill see you more, unexpectedly I saw you again but you never… — Missyrie Copy Share Image
I went home one afternoon to pick up a script without bothering to change, and a half an hour later the Beverly… — Ross Martin Copy Share Image
I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, through the window of a car coming the other way, she caught a glimpse if a stranger's face, then it was… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I'll put 'Stranger Things' up there with the best of it. I think it's such a profound show - it's very subtle… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor.… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
