The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Surviving war is an excellent training process. If it weren't so brutal, I 'd recommend it as an excellent start-up course in… — Joumana Haddad Copy Share Image
I read 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' when I was in middle school. But it was the films which… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I used to say, if Jim were alive today he'd never be clean and sober but I'm changing that answer because Eminem… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“In the most profound of Sufi teachings, we discover that the goal of Sufi practice is to create a kind of twin.… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive. — Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Copy Share Image
In the jungle, I can kill and eat a poisonous snake to survive. But on Bigg Boss' I'd be chewed alive by… — Abhinav Shukla Copy Share Image
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I thought was fascinating about comparative religion was that these were the stories that humans have told themselves about where they… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Life is still as never was, One Seems dead yet still is alive. Man frets for things, things he can buy, All's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
When you wake up and everybody says, "How do you feel, Mike?" I say, "I'm alive." As long as I'm alive I… — Michael E. Thornton Copy Share Image
