What annoyed me was that I so often attempted to weasel out of things on purpose, it killed me to do it… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel,… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The desire for success is inherent within all of us. It is a part of our nature to want to grow, to… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Surely people can now see that it is no accident that he, Obama, sat at the feet of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
But I killed a man just like my mother did. David says it’s okay because I didn’t mean to, and because he… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going… — Ben Wheatley 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
On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course,… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Shouldn’t you be working instead of fraternizing with customers?” I choked. He smiled. “What are you doing Sunday night?” I snorted. By… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I… — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise,… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I… — William James Copy Share Image
Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's… — William Lucking Copy Share Image
I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic.… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
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