Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A…

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their…

— Anonymous

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.

— Edwin Markham

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as…

— Mark Hopkins

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the…

— Henry Miller

I remember being really interested in the sad parts of Los Angeles, of which there are many, and knowing we weren't up in the…

— Mary Harron

The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values.…

— Albert Martin

Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is…

— Harry S. Truman

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred…

— Haile Selassie

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it…

— James Joyce

... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to…

— Niketas Stethatos

Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First…

— Andrew Sullivan

I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there's a great…

— Terry Gross

Let thy spirit move upon him to bring to pass those measures which will lift the burdens of government from the backs of the…

— Gordon B. Hinckley