Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear, / You must never, never, never ask him where / He is going,… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And believe me, to have been in the city of Tuscaloosa in October when you were young and full of Early Times… — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No, there is nothing on the face of the earth that can, for a moment, bear a comparison with Christianity as a… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Of course you realize you're leaving me in the position of being the one tell everyone - your mother, Luke, Alec, Izzy,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, what the Marine Corps becomes is what we make of it during our respective watches. And that watch… — Louis H. Wilson Jr Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these;… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Animals are so beautiful. Why does an American dentist need to go to Africa to kill them? Look, I get it. You're… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Dane was shaking his head firmly. "Don't bring it here, Ella. No babies." I gave him a dark look. "What if it… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I believe in a reasonable amount of "right to bear arms". But private citizens of the United States are not allowed to… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
When Cath's eyes closed, her eyelids stuck. She wanted to open them. She wanted to get a better look at Levi's too-dark… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not… — Joe Darion Copy Share Image
I would encourage my children to protect themselves if there's any sort of physical abuse against them. I would definitely go speak… — Rib Hillis Copy Share Image