Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Once you strike a note on the organ, it's going to stay with you until you either make it louder or softer… — Booker T. Jones Copy Share Image
If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather… — George Ellery Hale Copy Share Image
The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are… — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them,… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement.… — Mary Harris Jones Copy Share Image
Are you sure this is a good idea?' whispered the unicorn. 'No,' said Rupert. 'But it's our best chance to find a… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close." I stopped,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or… — Kalki Krishnamurthy Copy Share Image
We also have to intensify our air strikes against ISIS and eventually support our Arab and Kurdish partners to be able to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a… — Dev Anand Copy Share Image
I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one… — Damon Galgut Copy Share Image
It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar,… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When tragedy strikes, no one is fully prepared to deal effectively with all the responsibilitie s, emotional trauma, and grief that begin… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when… — Alain-Rene Lesage Copy Share Image
The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly,… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Even five minute meaningful conversations with other people not only fuel us in the moment but also build up a reserve of… — Michelle Gielan Copy Share Image
Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
