With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp…moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not… — Wolfgang Smith Copy Share Image
Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
I could have completely lost my mind or became a junkie or abandoned all sense and judgment and committed some rash, stupid… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
I never abandoned Yves Saint Laurent. I used to have lunch with him twice a week. I also saw him every Saturday.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
The Court abandoned the traditional constitutional meaning of 'religion' as a single denomination or system of worship and instead substituted a new… — David Barton Copy Share Image
The Kurds' achievement was outstanding, both militarily and diplomatically. European governments recognized this and abandoned their resistance to weapons deliveries. Germany, too,… — Ahmed Chalabi Copy Share Image
Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy.… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars.… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
“I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“The hours tick by as I lie in bed. Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to… — Ashley Earley Copy Share Image
“I looked out the window at midnight and watched the snow drop slowly to the ground. It was 2004 at last and… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here,… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless… — John Irving Copy Share Image
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Diane Wilson asked, "Why aren't people upset? Why aren't people protesting?" The mayor and county commissioners told her to keep quiet, and… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
