A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page…

All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult…

— John Flavel

Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought,…

— Ellen Burstyn

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

— Hillary Clinton

Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each…

— Edward Gibbon

There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a…

— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians…

— Howard Roberts

With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of…

— Jose Saramago

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

— Amity Shlaes

If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in…

— Max Lucado

I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.

— Tariq Ramadan

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There should be a period of time during each practice session when you perform. Invite some friends in to your practice room and play…

— Arnold Jacobs

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation…

— Karen Armstrong

Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.

— Walter Sickert

In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did…

— George Orwell