Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
I think most people are fascinated by chess for that reason. It's just these mystical shapes. It's almost like Harry Potteresque, like… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it,… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I… — Ruth Sawyer Copy Share Image
If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As actors and actresses, we must rejoice in the possession of our physical faculties. We must experience joy in the use of… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every shattered dream,… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment!… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I hit my knees every morning and every night to give thanks for being alive and all the blessings I have. And… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one’s own arrival and will survive one’s own departure. On this… — Hannah Copy Share Image
People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the… — Arthur Gordon Webster Copy Share Image
Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you… — Robert Powell Copy Share Image
All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson 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
I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs,… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
It is true that not even Christ is seen, but he exists; he is risen, he is alive, he is close to… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
Sure I do a lot of jokes about Anne Frank. But when you do those jokes, it makes people remember what happened… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Nothing you do makes much of a difference if you do not have charity. You can speak with tongues, have the gift… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
