We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The West - the very words go straight to that place of the heart where Americans feel the spirit of pride in… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
The difference, generally speaking, between sportbike people and cruiser people is that sportbike people like performance skill and wear safety gear; cruisers… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just,… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The International Criminal Court, like most international institutions, is a wonderful idea. A noble idea. All it needs to work is planetary… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow.… — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Hark the herald angels sing 'Glory to the newborn King! Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled' Joyful, all… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all… — Pat Nixon Copy Share Image
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue,… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In the Book of Acts faith was for each believer a beginning, not an end; it was a journey, not a bed… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I asked the head musician if I could go onstage during the next break and he said sure. I got two laughs… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
If peace is to come, it must be peace within your own mind and heart. If hatred is to die, you must… — Henry Wriston Copy Share Image
I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of… — William James Copy Share Image
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“Get up," I tell myself, "You go and make your dreams a reality. There's no use staying home and whine every time… — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing,… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
