If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
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do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
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Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
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Now, I actually have to a degree, a responsibility to ensure that it doesn't happen again.' I felt pride. When you're up… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
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Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
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But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little.… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
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Once we realize that the strangers are here forever and won't go away, then, like husband and wife in the old-style marriage,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of Othering's comfort, its allure, its power (social, psychological, or economical)? Is it the thrill of belonging -… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their… — Fred Reichheld Copy Share Image
Making clothes involves what I like...color, pattern, shape and movement...I like the everyday process...the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the… — Betsey Johnson Copy Share Image
“As I was a stranger in Olondria, I knew nothing of the splendour of its coasts, nor of Bain, the Harbour City,… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
My first decade of living in a metropolis was like, I was a people watcher. It meant the world to me to… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
It's the difference between someone who loves you more than anything in the world giving you criticism and getting it from some… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We made it. Despite the fear and predictions of doom. We made it. Even though there were days when we were tired… — Ron Atchison Copy Share Image
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People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
“PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or she I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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