My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there's nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
A woman may live without a lover, but a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is… — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer Copy Share Image
Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The dear Lord has favored us with a share of His cross. The greatest and undoubtedly the hardest to bear is the… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
